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A Savage Place

A Savage Place

CrimeHardboiled
Pages
192
Published
1981
Language
English

Synopsis

Spenser, a former soldier and ex-state trooper turned private investigator, is hired to protect Candy Sloan, a television reporter investigating a corrupt Hollywood studio. As the investigation deepens, the case pulls Spenser into a world of blackmail, violence, and a ruthless studio executive who will stop at nothing to keep his secrets buried. Told in Spenser's trademark first-person voice, the novel blends hardboiled detective fiction with a gritty, noir atmosphere and a tense, propulsive plot.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

GrittyTenseMelancholic
Morally GreyBetrayalSurvival

Genres

Crime Hardboiled Noir Mystery

About the author

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Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker (1932–2010) was an American crime novelist best known for creating Spenser, the wisecracking Boston private investigator at the center of 40 novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript (1974). He also created the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall detective series and, starting with Appaloosa, a series of Westerns featuring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. He served in the US Army in Korea and earned a PhD in English from Boston University, and in 2002 the Mystery Writers of America n...

Characters

SpenserProtagonist
Candy SloanSupporting
Mark SamuelsonSupporting
All characters in A Savage Place