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Widow's walk : a Spenser novel by Robert B Parker, 1932-2010 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of Boston’s elite has been murdered. The accused is his new wife. She’s blonde, beautiful, and young. The jury’s going to hate her. With next-to-no alibi, and multi-million reasons to kill her husband, she needs the best defense money can buy. His name is Spenser, and he’d give anything to believe her.Amazon.com ReviewIt's good to see private eye Spenser back in Boston, after his ludicrous imitation of a frontier lawman in Robert B. Parker's Potshot. But he's getting nowhere investigating the gunshot murder of banker Nathan Smith in Widow's Walk. The cops figure Smith's ingenuous but unfaithful young wife, Mary, pulled the trigger. She denies it. Spenser, hired by former prosecutor Rita Fiore to help build Mary Smith the best defense her money can buy, isn't sure either way, and the more time he spends on this case (dense with business and sexual deceptions), the more perplexed he becomes.Of course, our poetry-spouting hero finally catches a break by linking Smith's demise to a convoluted real-estate scam. The rest of the novel offers plenty of Parker's characteristically witty dialogue, the slayings of several informants that you know from the get-go are toast, and ample oppor

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Author
Robert B Parker, 1932-2010
Publisher
Penguin
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780786242153
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
Rating
4.3 / 5 (2,234 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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