Pale Kings and Princes - Robert B. Parker, Dell Publishing Company

&quot,Ebullient entertainment.&quot,--Time A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at &quot,Miami North&quot,--little Wheaton, Massachusetts--the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line. Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband? Spenser will stop at nothing to find out. Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels &quot,Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction.&quot,--Newsweek &quot,Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate--[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.&quot,--The New York Times &quot,They just don't make private eyes tougher or funnier.&quot,--People &quot,Parker has a recorder's ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.&quot,--Los Angeles Times &quot,A deft storyteller, a master of pace.&quot,--The Philadelphia Inquirer &quot,Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero.&quot,--The Chicago Sun-Times &quot,[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.&quot,--The New Yorker