Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)

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The Internet is awash with tributes to Robert B. Parker, whose passing this week in his Cambridge home has hit readers and fellow novelists alike very hard. Parker is a giant among literary men: a bright, purposeful, prolific writer (a winner of two Edgar Awards and designated as a Grand Master) whose enormously popular Spenser series is praised time and again as the most worthy heir to classic noir fiction by Chandler and Hammett (a pair of his personal heroes). Beyond the Spenser books, he also created three more series–one piloted by small-town police chief Jesse Stone…


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