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Spenser Creator Parker Lets Inner Self Drive Mysteries
Boston author Robert Parker, creator of the Spenser novels, is described as a literate writer who blends poetry and grit. He models Spenser as a thoughtful, complex private investigator and plans three books a year, with "Promised Land" named best novel of 1976 by the Mystery Writers of America.
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