A Catskill Eagle

The trail of a missing girl leads private eye Spenser into an underworld of vice and violence peopled by pornographers and pimps - the cigarette butts of mankind. And Spenser tackles each hurdle with the laconic, sharp-eyed coolness.

Hired as security man for Alexander's election campaign, Spenser checks out blackmail concerning the politician's wife. Aided by sidekick Hawk, and surrogate son Paul Giacomin, he is sucked into political ambition, corruption, violence, and the truth about his relationship with Susan Silverman.

Spenser has signed on to protect the glamorous star, Jill Joyce, from an escalating chain of anonymous harassments. However, he finds himself saddled with a lot more than he bargained for. The mischievous harassments, which are growing steadily more serious, could turn into homicide.

Robert. B. Parker adds another classic to his legendary Spenser series with Hush Money, a morally complex tale that pits the burly Boston P.I. and his redoubtable cohort, Hawk, against local intellectual heavy-weights. When Robinson Nevins, the son of Hawk's boyhood mentor, is denied tenure at the University, Hawk asks Spenser to investigate. It appears the denial is tied to the suicide of a ...

Boston P.I. Spenser returns - heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town recently reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles. When a band of modern-day mountain men, led by a charismatic individual known as The Preacher, takes over the town, even the local police are powerles...

Ellis Alves is no angel. His lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson and asks Spenser for help. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich kid tennis-star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice might just die along with the ...

Lisa St. Claire, the pretty young wife of a middle-aged cop, Frank Belson, has disappeared. When somebody takes a shot at Frank a few days later, he asks Spenser to find her. Spenser quickly discovers that she had a past and a different identity, in the L.A. underworld of drugs and sleaze.