Robert B. Parker

Author 67 / Writer 15 · 1951 – 2020 · 🎬 15 📖 67 · 🇺🇸 United States

Robert Brown Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works include the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. In the mid-1980s, based on the character of detective Spenser, ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire. A series of TV movies was also produced based on the same character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited as reviving and changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors, including Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane.

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Fiction Mystery Boston (mass.), fiction Large type books Spenser (fictitious character), fiction

Highlights

Spenser Confidential

2020

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

2015

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

2012

Frequent Collaborators

Tom Selleck

16 shared

Kohl Sudduth

9 shared

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Michael Brandman

8 shared

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Robert Harmon

8 shared

William Devane

8 shared

Stephen McHattie

8 shared

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🎬 Movies

Spenser Confidential

writer

2020

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

writer

2015

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

writer

2012

Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost

writer

2011

Jesse Stone: No Remorse

writer

2010

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

writer

2009

Appaloosa

writer

2008

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

writer

2007

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

writer

2006

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

writer

2006

Stone Cold

writer

2005

Monte Walsh

writer

2003

Small Vices

writer

1999

Poodle Springs

writer

1998

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Spenser Confidential 2

writer

📖 Books

Sixkill

author

2011

Split Image

author

2010

Blue-eyed devil

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2010

Painted ladies

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2010

Brimstone

author

2009

The professional

author

2009

Taming a Seahorse

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2009

Night and Day

author

2009

Chasing the bear

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2009

The Boxer and the Spy

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2008

Resolution

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2008

Rough Weather

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2008

Stranger in Paradise

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2008

Now & Then

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2007

Spare change

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2007

High Profile

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2007

Edenville Owls

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2007

Sea Change

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2006

Blue screen

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2006

Appaloosa

author

2005

Melancholy baby

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2004

Large Print Press - Stone Cold

author

2003

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

author

2002

Widow's walk

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2002

Death in paradise

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2001

Gunman's rhapsody

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2001

Walking Shadow

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2001

Potshot

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2001

Hugger mugger

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2000

Perish twice

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2000

Hush money

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1999

Family honor

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1999

Trouble in paradise

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1998

Night passage

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1997

Thin air

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1995

Walking shadow

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1994

All our yesterdays

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1994

Paper doll

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1993

Double deuce

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1992

Pastime

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1991

Perchance to dream

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1991

Stardust

author

1990

Promised Land

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1989

Looking For Rachel Wallace

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1989

Playmates

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1989

Crimson joy

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1988

Pale Kings and Princes

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1987

Pale Kings and Princes

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1987

Pale kings and princes

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1987

Taming a sea-horse

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1986

A Catskill eagle

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1985

Valediction

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1984

The Judas Goat

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1983

The Widening Gyre

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1983

Love and glory

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1983

Ceremony

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1982

A savage place

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1981

A Savage Place

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1981

Early autumn

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1981

Looking for Rachel Wallace

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1980

Wilderness

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1979

The Judas goat

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1978

Promised land

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1976

Mortal stakes

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1975

God save the child

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1974

The Godwulf manuscript

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1973

Passport to Peril

author

1951

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