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Series (with order)

Spenser novels (13)

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Taming a Sea-Horse

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New York, New York, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1986)

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Nay, we'll go Together down, sir. Notice Neptune though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"

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For Joan

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I hadn't had lunch with Patricia Utley since the last time the Red Sox won the pennant.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0440188415, Mass Market Paperback)

Nice girls don't. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She's a hooker hooked on the wrong guy -- and she's on her way to trouble. So is Spenser.

Looking out for April has landed him in the crud of Times Square. It's not a long way to big-business boardrooms where blood money get laundered into long green, sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency.

"Spenser's back and New York's got him...proficient with his gun and fists, not to mention his quick verbal shots." (Daily News)

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400)

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