Promised Land
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Spenser novels volume 4
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English
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Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one...the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead...and suddenly Spenser is in so deep that the only way out is so risky it makes dying look like a sure thing."Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read private eye around today." (The Cincinnati Post)
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9780795311864
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Kirkus Book Review
Parker--more deservedly compared to Chandler than most--surely believes, as Chandler did, that the mystery story is a novel. In this, 'his best proof thereof, Spenser is back leading with his chin and that fat lip--Spenser and his attractive Susan. He's trying to find out why Pam Shepard disappeared; she's the wife of Harvey Shepard who turns out to be in hock to a local thug-moneyman in a suspect real estate deal, the Promised Land. Spenser locates Pam quickly but finds she's in almost as bad trouble with some militant sisters on a robbery-murder charge. Two cases in one, neither very complicated, but you read Parker for the sharpest vernacular around (excepting George Higgins) and also for a definite ethical extension: ""honorable behavior"" not violence is the ""real machismo,"" the integrity Spenser refuses to put in escrow. Nervy, classy entertainment with lots of extracurricular pleasures. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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