By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Jan 20, 2010, at 12:57 PM Updated on 1/20 at 12:59 PM
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This has not, by any standard, been a good week for far too many people.
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Robert B. Parker, whose novels about the Boston private investigator known only as Spenser, died Monday at the age of 77.
Most of the 40 novels Parker wrote in his career featured Spenser -- his first name was never revealed -- and there was a time when I practically consumed his books.
It was a reading phase I went through ... good heavens, more than 25 years ago now....and after a while, my tastes moved on from private eye stories (although I still follow the adventures of Bill Pronzini's matchless series of "Nameless Detective" stories).
I haven't read a book by Mr. Parker since then, but I remember the clean, tight prose that always contained a spark of self-referential, self-deprecating humor.
And I always liked the fact that he dedicated every novel to his wife, Joan.
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