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Spenser novels (17)

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1990)

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For Joan: No dream in vain.

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When you walk across the Common from the Beacon Street side, coming up from Charles Street and angling toward Park Street, you are walking up one of those low urban hills that no one notices, unless they are running.

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I felt like I was trapped in a Hemingway short story. If I got any more cryptic I wouldn't be able to talk at all.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0425127230, Paperback)

When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.

First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged out -- made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her -- does she imagine it, or is it real?

Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates to murder. Now begins the dangerous part -- while the act may have ended, the murderer lingers on.

"STARDUST is a four-star noir suspense that no Spenser fan will be able to resist." (Publisher's Source)

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400)

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