No one can read the Spenser novels without recalling the Hammett/Chandler/Ross Macdonald tradition out of which he works. But, like so many other contemporary crime novelists, Parker plays with the particulars of the form. Spenser, while retaining many of the characteristics of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Lew Archer, does exhibit personal traits at odds with his predecessors. Parker has expanded and updated what was becoming an ail-too predictable genre. In Spenser's relationship with.....
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