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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away--until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends ... friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking except with his fists....
4) Early autumn
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When a woman asks Spenser to rescue her 15-year-old son from the hoods her ex-husband had hired, Spenser spirits the boy to the backwoods of Maine to teach him the art of survival, as learned in Boston's backstreets and Korea.
6) Crimson joy
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A husband murders his wife, imitating the "Red Rose Killer," but when he is caught, Spenser's friends in homicide enlist him and Hawk in an unofficial investigation that seems to implicate some of Susan's patients.
7) Playmates
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Spenser investigates rumored cheating by Taft University's star basketball team.
8) Stardust
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Susan, acting as a consultant to a TV film crew shooting locally, persuades Spenser and Hawk to guard the show's star, and soon they are investigating the murder of the woman's stand-in.
9) Pastime
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Pastime is a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father's rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother's sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to. This time, it's more than a routine search for a missing person--Spenser must search his own soul...
10) Double deuce
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At the behest of his pal Hawk, Spenser defends the residents of a gang-terrorized Boston housing project known as Double Deuce.
11) Paper doll
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Spenser is hired by Loudon Tripp to find the murderer of his conventionally impeccable wife, whom the police consider to be a victim of random urban violence.
12) Thin air
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A radio deejay newly married to a Boston police detective is kidnapped and imprisoned in the barrio of a depressed Massachusetts factory town, and Spenser is asked to investigate.
13) Walking shadow
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While he'd rather be renovating the old farmhouse he and Susan bought near Concord, Spenser agrees to find out who is following the artistic director of the Port Arthur theatre company, and soon he is looking into a murder.
14) Chance
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A second-echelon hoodlum hires Spenser and Hawk to find his daughter's missing husband, a middle-management criminal, and the trail takes the two to Vegas.
15) A Catskill eagle
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Spenser's best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence, and Susan has gotten herself into even bigger trouble. It is up to Spenser to save them both.
16) Hush money
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PI Spenser investigates charges of discrimination made by a black professor who was denied tenure at a New England university. The professor claims there was a conspiracy to brand him as a homosexual. By the author The Godwulf Manuscript.
17) Sudden mischief
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Susan asks Spenser to investigate charges of sexual harrassment leveled against her ex-husband, Brad Sterling, and Spenser discovers clues that suggest Sterling's charitable work has been a front for criminal activities.
18) Hugger mugger
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Parker presents Spenser with a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no: He's been doing pro bono work for so long his...
19) Potshot
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Boston private detective Spenser and his cohorts head west to Potshot, Arizona, a haven for California millionaires seeking an escape from their high-pressure lives, when the idyllic retreat is threatened by a vicious local gang.
20) Widow's walk
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When Nathan Smith, a prominent local banker and millionaire, is murdered, Spenser is called in to investigate Nathan's young wife, Mary, and as the evidence stacks up against her, Spenser discovers that Mary's mysterious past has put his own life in danger.
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