.Robert B. Parker writer dead at 77

by Nick Name Posted 2010/02/02 00:40:59

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Robert B. Parker writer died Jan 18. Possibly the most successful modern crime writer. 60 novels.
Spenser. Jesse Stone. Sunny Randall.
“When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he’s an influence, and the rest of us lie about it," Harlan Coben said in an Atlandtic Monthly interview in 2007.
One Jesse Stone novel has yet to be published. Also another western by Parker. Two more Spenser novels are said to be 'in production, but unscheduled' by the publisher.
A new Jesse Stone TV movie is supposed to be aired in the spring.

Are you a Robert B. Parker fan? What do you think?

kevracer 2010/02/02 00:44:15

A very profilic writer to be sure. His best works were Poodle Springs (A completion of Raymond Chandler's last, unfinished, novel) and Perchance to Dream a sequel to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.

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Nick Name to kevracer 2010/02/02 01:17:21

I never read Perchance to Dream. I like 'Wilderness', one of his less known books. It sort of takes the Spenser situation and does things with that you couldn't get away with in a Spenser novel. Things go wrong, main characters die....

I think the Jesse Stone TV movies are the best screen adaptions of Parker's work. (I haven't seen the western.)

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