Classic Robert B. Parker: "Looking for Rachel Wallace", "Promised Land"
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
In PROMISED LAND Spenser is hired by Harvey Shepard to find his missing wife. The case seems relatively straightforward at first, but Spenser suspects that there are more dangerous forces at work - and that 'Promised Land', a dodgy real-estate company, is involved. A dark story of murder and redemption unfolds against what Spenser ironically thinks of as the real Promised Land, the bleak landscape of Cape Cod. PROMISED LAND won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1977. LOOKING FOR RACHEL WALLACE sees Spenser hired to protect a lesbian feminist activist, the eponymous Rachel Wallace. After his protection gets in the way of her protest, she fires him. Shortly afterwards, she is kidnapped. Though no longer officially employed to protect her, Spenser feels duty-bound to find her. Murder follows, and behind it all lies a family who blame Wallace for, among other things, turning their daughter (and sister) into a lesbian, and one of Wallace's lovers.
General Information
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- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : 28 February 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Robert B. Parker
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 416
More About The Product
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Robert B. Parker completed a PhD in English at Boston University. He began writing his Spenser novels in 1971 while teaching at Boston's Northeastern University. Little did he suspect then that his witty, literate prose and psychological insights would make him keeper-of-the-flame of America's rich tradition of detective fiction. He was named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America.
Contains LOOKING FOR RACHEL WALLACE and PROMISED LAND.
