Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1992
ISBN: 9780399137211
ID: PJ0628
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. Slight corner bumps to boards. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 131.25
Summary: When a teenage girl and her baby are gunned down by feuding street gangs, tenants of a Boston housing project hire Hawk and Spenser to protect them and bring the killers to justice. 150,000 first printing. $130,000 ad/promo. Mystery Guild Main. Doubleday & Lit Guild Alt.
Hush Money by Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1999
ISBN: 9780399144585
ID: PJ0629
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. On the bottom edge for the front board it is kind of wrinkled. Came from publisher this way. Also slight corner bumps. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 56.25
Summary: Twenty-five years and 26 books into the Spenser series, "Hush Money" dishes up another solid installment that is sure to fulfill the cravings of Parker fans new and old. This time Spenser and his buddy Hawk are helping a couple of troubled friends (i.e., they're working without a fee). The first case involves the denial of tenure for Professor Robinson Nevins. While tenure meetings are always closed-door affairs, Nevins assumes that the recent suicide of graduate student Prentice Lamont (who some claim was having an affair with Nevins) ruined his chances for a coveted permanent position. Spenser and Hawk cut a brawl-strewn path through the members of the tenure committee on their way to the surprising truth of the Nevins case. The other investigation pits Spenser against the unknown stalker of K.C. Roth. Spenser's girlfriend, Susan, has known K.C. for a while, and while the PI finds Ms. Roth a bit melodramatic, he's always eager to help a damsel in distress. The only problem is that after he's apparently resolved the case, K.C. begins a little stalking of her own--of Spenser. "--Patrick O'Kelley"
Pale Kings and Princes by Robert B. Parker
Publisher: The Delacorte Press, 1987
ISBN: 9780385295383
ID: PJ0630
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. Overall shows some age. Slight corner bumps. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 356.25
Summary: The bestselling author of Pastime and Double Deuce presents a "taut thriller . . . (that will) keep the reader's adrenaline pumping overtime" (Publishers Weekly). Caught in a snowstorm of drugs, passion, and hate, Spenser investigates a cocaine-related murder. Part of Dell's ongoing Robert B. Parker reissue program.
Potshot by Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2001
ISBN: 9780399147104
ID: PJ0631
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. Slight corner bumps to boards. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 56.25
Summary: Maybe Spenser's driven all the bad guys out of Boston. Which is too bad because on his home ground, the tough and tender PI and Hawk, his trusty sidekick, don't need a gang of other guys to do their work. And the hired guns they round up to help them clean out a nest of ne'er-do-wells who have the desert town of Potshot, Arizona, terrified aren't nearly as amusing as, say, John Dortmunder's criminal colleagues in Donald Westlake's caper novels. The thugs who populate the Dell, a scrubby little enclave just outside of town, have the locals in their pocket, which is why the pretty blonde who hires Spenser to find whoever killed her husband points him toward the Preacher, who rules the Dell and its denizens. But Spenser's not as certain as his client that Steve Buckman died at the Preacher's hands. As our hero and his ethnically diverse but politically incorrect henchmen (one gay shooter, one Latino, one black, one Native American--all that's missing is Annie Oakley) investigate, it turns out that Spenser's right, as usual. The action ranges from Las Vegas to L.A., Atlanta to New Mexico, but much of it is a humdrum travelogue as Spenser rounds up his gang from all over the country to take on the Preacher and his musclemen. While "Potshot" isn't one of Robert B. Parker's best, it's still not bad. The one or two lines devoted to introducing Spenser's backup buddies don't begin to do any of them justice, and there's a lot more description of the artillery the guys pack than usual. But they do fill up the white space, and when the action lags, there's always Susan's dirty talk, shopping jones, and dietary obsessions to divert the reader. There's a midlife crisis somewhere in this evergreen series that's just waiting to erupt. Whether it's Spenser's, Susan's, or Parker's, however, remains to be seen. "--Jane Adams"
Taming a Sea-Horse by Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1986
ISBN: 9780385294614
ID: PJ0632
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. Jacket as 1/2 inch cosed tear and is crinkled near top edge, cease inside back flap. Small balck mark on front end page probably covering initials, Bottom page block is speckled with very small red dots. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 67.5
Summary: In his latest highly acclaimed Spenser novel, Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency. This phenomenal bestseller, with a million-copy paperback first printing is supported by national TV advertising and a 6-month backlist reissue program. HC:Delacorte.
Thin Air by Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1995
ISBN: 9780399140204
ID: PJ0633
Flat Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on the title page and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. Has neatly drawn square inside back board. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature.
Price in US $ 93.75
Summary: When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective vanishes mysteriously, Spenser joins the search for the missing woman, following a dangerous trail that leads him to a sociopathic Latino ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's dark past. 175,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo.
