Pale Kings and Princes - Robert B. Parker

Pale Kings and Princes

By Robert B. Parker

  • Release Date: 1987-05-01
  • Genre: Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Score: 4
4
From 221 Ratings

Description

“Ebullient entertainment.Time

A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.

Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?

Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.

Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels

“Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction.”Newsweek

“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate—[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.”The New York Times
 
“They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier.”People
 
“Parker has a recorder’s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.”Los Angeles Times
 
“A deft storyteller, a master of pace.”The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero.”The Chicago Sun-Times
 
“[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.”The New Yorker

Reviews

  • Nice

    5
    By Handsome Smitty
    Admit it: we read Spenser for the dialogue and action. Even the hoop-de-doddle is worth it. All three present and accounted for in Pale Kings and Princes.
  • Pale kings and princes

    5
    By boots saddle
    Another great Spenser whodunit. Good plots and action with a very satisfying ending.
  • Shoot out, finally

    4
    By Crzyhrt
    Wordy version of a Rob't. B Parker good read. Plot line a little convoluted, slow to develop but interesting. Worth the time to read, but not memorable as Parker goes.