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Pale Kings and Princes
“Ebullient entertainment.â€â€”Time
A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami Northâ€â€”little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.
Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels
“Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction.â€â€”Newsweek
“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate—[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.â€â€”The New York Times  “They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier.â€â€”People  “Parker has a recorder’s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.â€â€”Los Angeles Times  “A deft storyteller, a master of pace.â€â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer  “Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero.â€â€”The Chicago Sun-Times  “[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.â€â€”The New Yorker