Pale Kings and Princes

Pale Kings and Princes

<b>“Ebullient entertainment.<i>”</i>—<i>Time</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br> Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?<br><br> Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.<br><br><b>Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels</b><br><br> “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.”<b>—<i>Newsweek<br><br></i></b>“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate—[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.”<b>—<i>The New York Times</i></b><br>  <br> “They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier.”<b>—<i>People</i></b><br>  <br> “Parker has a recorder’s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.”<b>—<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br>  <br> “A deft storyteller, a master of pace.”<b>—<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br>  <br> “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.”<b>—<i>The Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br>  <br> “[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.”<b>—<i>The New Yorker</i></b>