Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series, died Monday in Cambridge, Mass. He was ...

Of the many crime writers who have tried on Raymond Chandler’s mantle, few wore it as easily as Robert B. Parker. Parker, who died on January 18, wrote more than 60 books, many of them recounting the ...

The late Robert B. Parker made a career — a very successful, almost 40-year one — out of a series of flawed-hero protagonists: Spenser, Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone among them. They had at one point ...

Ted gives an overview of Parker's writing, focusing on the Spenser character from books and TV. Robert B. Parker created the characters of Spenser and Jesse Stone, as well as many others. His mystery ...

A high-profile homicide case, the shooting murder of Mayor Neil O’Hara, preoccupies Paradise, Mass., police chief Jesse Stone in Lupica’s solid second franchise contribution (after 2020’s Fool’s ...

Christopher Farnsworth says it seemed like just another email from his agent. But then Farnsworth, the author of thrillers such as “The President’s Vampire” and “Killfile,” opened it, and everything ...

In 1973, a Korean War veteran with a Ph.D. in English from Boston University published his first novel, a detective tale called “The Godwulf Manuscript.” Its hero was a private detective named Spenser ...

Brandman, who collaborated with Robert B. Parker (1932%E2%80%932010) on TV adaptations of his work, perfectly reproduces Parker's style in this impressive ...

The private-eye novel is the quintessential form of the American mystery story, and for the past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre’s ...