Robert B. Parker, whose best-selling series about a Boston detective spawned the TV show "Spenser: For Hire," died at the desk in his Massachusetts home at 77. A spokeswoman for the Cambridge police ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

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 ...