Robert B. Parker—The Spenser Novels.‘Spenser…S.P.E.N.S.E.R….like the English poet. Robert B. Parker wrote 40 novels from 1973 to 2010, featuring his cultivated, wise cracking Boston private investigator, Spenser. The dialogue is a pure delight. Our protagonist out quipping—and, when necessary, out punching—his adversaries. A critic once noted that Parker’s wordplay was so entertaining that he could