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2 gen 1994 · Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes. When one of Susan's former patients, a news reporter, turns up dead on the outskirts of Wheaton, the cocaine capitol of Massachusetts, she and Spenser head out to Wheaton to find out why he was killed, with Hawk tagging along, and end up getting involved with Felipe Esteva, the h... Read all.
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- Crime, Drama
- Vic Sarin
- 1994-01-02
- Cover Information
- Recurring Characters
- Unanswered Questions
- Literary References, Or "The Annotated Gumshoe"
- Meanwhile, in The Spenser Universe
- Favorite Lines
- Food
- Drink
- Notes
"as always for Joan, and Dan, and Dave, and this time too, for Kathy" Taken from the jacket flap of the hardcover edition "A reporter who was prying into the cocaine trade the the central Massachusetts town of Wheaton has been murdered, and Spenser is called in to investigate. When he's rebuffed by the police and threatened by a Colombian produce d...
Rita Fiore (cf. Valediction) provides some information on the drug trade before Spenser goes into Wheaton.Detective Samuelson, LAPD (cf. A Savage Place) is briefly mentioned.Did Spenser actually kill the Rottweiler? Or did he just stun him? Idle prying minds want to know. (Jacob Sconyers writes: "My opinion: have you every felt the dense skull and heavily muscled neck...
Significance of the Title: "I saw pale kings and princes too, / Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; / Who cried--'La belle Dame sans Merci / Hath thee in thrall'" - John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci [1821].I'm not sure of the reference here. The poem itself: "La Belle Dame sans Merci"(French: "The Beautiful Merciless Lady"), is about a youn...
Spenser's on an American beer binge, as evidenced by this book's "Broo List":Susan shows that she can be very necessary at times. Spenser slips up a couple of times, and people die because of it. Susan is there to comfort and bolster Spenser's confidence, which is in sore n...When Spenser agrees with Hawk's plan to whack the bad guys, this is one of the rare times that Spenser actually goes along with Hawk. Usually, Spenser has a hard time justifying killing someone lik...Susan had moved from Smithfield to Cambridge in the previous year (Chapter 17.) Very little detail is given, but she has an office in town (Chapter 23) and lives in a Condo (Chapter 18). By the nex...Chapter 2: ...I never touched her!!! 1. "'Could we focus on Wheaton a little more,' I said. 1. 'Focus,' Rita said, 'they don't even know us.'" Chapter 3: Sales of black arm bands would go through the roof 1. 'Listen...Spenser. You start asking around in that neighborhood and you'll end up with your balls missing too.' 1. 'League of Women Voters wou...
Chapter 5:Tuna salad and a dab of cole slaw on whole wheat in his hotel room. Also some bread and butter pickles ("green vegetables are important").Chapter 8:A grilled cheese sandwich at Wally's Lunch.Chapter 9:A gourmet Italian meal that got burned up along with his car. One turkey and one veggie submarine sandwich from the Quabin Sub Base. Sounds better than what he had to settle for.Chapter 10:Chicken pot pie at the Reservoir Hunt Room.Chapter 2:Killian Red Ale downstairs at the Parker House.Chapter 4:Draft beer at the Reservoir Court.Chapter 5:Samuel Adams in his hotel room.Chapter 8:An "authentic native Budweiser" long neck at a bar in the Hispanic part of town.Note Susan's psychotherapy session with Caroline Rogers in Chapter 31. "Let the tears come. See what comes with them." We'll be seeing that phrase again. One wonders if it's a standard method in ps...If you're a local like me the Simon and Schuster audio cassettes read by David Purdham can be pure torture. The oft-mentioned Quabbin Reservoir is pronounced with a soft A, sorta like "Quaahbin." W...As I was pulling into my parking slot Hawk was driving on the Mass. Turnpike past Worcester, and it was pronounced "Wooster," just like a P.G. Wodehouse character. I wanted to cry.I was clueless as to where RBP sited this book until I found an angel. I wrote to Linda Shea (see the Links page) and she E-mailed me that: "Yes we definitely went to Ware on purpose to hunt down '...Pale Kings and Princes is a Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The title is taken from John Keats's poem La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad. Following the murder of a reporter, Spenser is hired by a newspaper to investigate drug smuggling around the area of Wheaton, Massachusetts.
- Robert B. Parker
- 256 pp
- 1987
- June 1987
Fandom. Share. Spenser Collection. Drama , Action , Crime , Mystery , TV Movie. User. Score. Overview. Following the surprise cancellation of the hit series Spenser: For Hire, ABC produced four full-length movies starring the late Robert Urich as the wisecracking-but-deadly Boston detective.
Spenser Collection. Following the surprise cancellation of the hit series Spenser: For Hire, ABC produced four full-length movies starring the late Robert Urich as the wisecracking-but-deadly...
2 gen 1994 · Overview. When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town, they discover plenty of illegal activity and cocaine.
2 gen 1994 · Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes 1994. NR. Released January 2, 1994. Runtime 1h 30m. Director Vic Sarin. Writers Robert B. Parker + 1 more. Country Canada. Languages English. Studio Boardwalk Entertainment Group. Genres Action, Crime, Mystery.
