![]() ![]() Infuriatingly easy, as far as some are concerned - those who imagine Parker cranking out books without breaking a sweat, only to have each new one appear almost instantaneously on bestseller lists. He's compounded his crimes by making it all look easy. ![]() "he legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition," critic David Geherin called him in Sons of Sam Spade (1980), making a spirited and convincing argument based on just the first five books in Parker's series about brash Boston private gumshoe Spenser.Īnd then Parker had to go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like not only refusing to die, but having the audacity to continue writing (over 30 books in print, and counting). By the early 1980s, in fact, he was being trumpeted as the genre's savior. At one time, Parker was regularly discussed in the same hushed, reverential tones usually reserved for the masters of detective fiction. ![]()
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