This strong new Spenser novel flips that scenario, with Hawk shot and Spenser helping him first to get Robert B. Parker, Author. Putnam $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-15277-1 A starred review ...

my take on ten of the greatest crime novels ever written. This was the hardest, and possibly most controversial, list to write – there’s no Raymond Chandler, Robert B Parker, Dorothy L Sayers ...