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Review of The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall an.This copy is signed on the Title page: Parkers first Spenser novel, The Godwulf Manuscript, introduces the most attractive and resourceful private investigator since Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe and proves that crime in Boston can be quite as lively and sinister as crime in Los Angeles. I can’t confess to what I don’t remember There are some closed tears at top of spine.Review of The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert Parker.Review of Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers.1 Ratings 17 Want to read 2 Currently reading 4 Have read Overview View 14 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date.A good example of oeuvre, tightly written and rattling along at a fair clip, the book is an entertaining read that will appeal to fans of hardboiled PI tales. Never short of a wise-crack, Spenser manages to rub up the wrong way just about everyone he meets and progresses from one scrape to the next in the pursuit of justice.
#The godwulf manuscript free
While the theft of a medieval manuscript sounds like a relatively sedate case for a tough guy PI the tale soon shifts focus as Spenser tries to free a student framed for murder and tangles with both cops and the mob. Spenser, as introduced in the book, continues the hardboiled, American PI tradition of the wise-cracking, womanising, tough guy investigator, which is perhaps no surprise given Parker’s own interests in the private-eyes of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald, on which he wrote his PhD dissertation.
#The godwulf manuscript series
Others though are not so keen for him to be meddling in their affairs.įirst published in 1973, The Godwulf Manuscript is the first in the Spenser series that had reached book #40 by the time of Parker’s death in 2010 and also spawned a hit TV show and some TV movies. Spenser, however, believes she might be telling the truth and her rich parents hire him to discover the truth. She swears that he was killed by two men and the gun forced on her, but to the police it looks like an open and shut case. When one of their members calls him in the early hours he arrives at her apartment to find her heavily drugged holding a gun and her boyfriend shot dead. His initial focus is a student radical group who oppose the forces of capitalism. A wise-cracking private investigator, Spenser has been hired by a university to recover the Godwulf manuscript, a rare medieval illuminated text.
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