, best known for his Spenser novels, passed away due to a heart attack on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He began writing the Spenser novels in 1971, and went on to write 37 novels featuring the Boston private eye. The series made the leap from page to screen by inspiring the 1980's television series Spenser: For Hire. Apart from his Detective series he wrote more then 60 titles including Westerns and YA novels.
He was named Grand Master at the Edgar awards by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen.
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Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Fl...
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Young spenser is tough. No doubt about it. After all, he's being raised by his father and uncles - three of the toughest men in town. He knows how to fight, and he's had to prove it. ...
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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ran...
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Spenser has his hands full when he takes on two cases at once. In the first, a high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political correctness. And in the other, S...
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Dear Chief Stone: I know you have been looking for me . . . I won't turn myself in. I probably should, but my obsession won't let me. What I know is that my life is becoming more unbeara...
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When a shy high school student’s body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town—an apparent suicide— fifteen-year-old Terry Novak doesn’t know what to think. Somet...
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