Aquí tenemos a Spenser metido de cabeza en el mundo deportivo y más precisamente en el del Baseball.

Pero la verdad es que no, y que la tercera de las novelas del recio, encantador y sobrenaturalmente canchero detective de Boston es, como mucho, entretenida.

Claro, ya la segunda -y reseñada muy recientemente God Save The Child- ya mejoraba muchísimo y pensé que ahí comenzaba el ciclo 'bueno' de novelas del personaje (porque ya en mi juventud leí algunas flojas y sé que ese ciclo termina en algún momento) por lo que enganché la lectura de esta inmediatamente después. Por eso mismo fue que comencé la relectura (o directamente lectura, ya que son varias las que nunca había leído) de las novelas del personaje y en orden cronológico, sólo para encontrarme una novela inicial del montón. Cierto es que habla mi memoria -y es la memoria de alguien 25 años menor- pero recuerdo al personaje, su universo, su sistema de valores y los casos que resolvía como de las mejores y más entretenidas novelas policiales que he leído. Promised Land and the other Spenser novels spawned the movie Spenser: For Hire and a string of made-for-TV movies.Ī riesgo de ser nostálgico, creo que las novelas de Spenser son una de las mejores cosas que leí en mi adolescencia. Parker's acclaim and his thorough background in classic detective literature helped earn him the somewhat unusual commission of completing a Philip Marlowe novel that the great Raymond Chandler had left unfinished. Best known for his portrayal of the tough but erudite investigator Spenser, Parker wrote over twenty-five novels over the course of his career, which began in 1973. Parker was one of contemporary fiction's most popular and respected detective writers. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre.

Parker was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Robert B.

Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker