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Small Vices
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Small Vices Mass market paperbound - 1998

by Parker, Robert B

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Ellis Alves is no angel. But his lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson and asks Spenser for help. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich-kid, tennis star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice may die with him.

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Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Small Vices
  • Author Parker, Robert B
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition F First Paperbac
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date March 1, 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP63137475
  • ISBN 9780425162484 / 0425162486
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.33 x 4.4 x 1 in (18.62 x 11.18 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Boston (Mass.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Ellis Alves is no angel. But his lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson...and asks Spenser for help.

From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich-kid, tennis-star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice may die with him...

From the publisher

Robert B. Parker was the author of more than fifty books. He died in January 2010.

First line

THE LAST TIME I SAW Rita Fiore she'd been an assistant DA with red hair, first-rate hips, and more attitude than an armadillo.

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Media reviews

"In Small Vices Mr. Parker not only brings his hero to the point of death but challenges him to confront his own mortality in a way that he hasn't since Valediction."The New York Times Book Review, Marilyn Stasio

About the author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring police chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole-Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.