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1982
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The PI in Hammett and Chandler (300)
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1984
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Parker on Writing (75)
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1985
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Parker on Writing (300)
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1985
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THE WIDENING GYRE
Delacorte Press
1983
The adoring wife of Senate Candidate Meade Alexander had a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her
i's with little hearts. A blond beauty,
she was the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she had a little problem with sex
and drugs - a problem someone had managed to put on video tape. The big boys figured a little blackmail
would put her husband out of the race until Spenser hopped aboard Alexander's bandwagon.

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SPENSARIUM'S APHORISMS AND ALLUSIONS
"Never knew somebody knew more stuff that didn't matter."
Hawk to Spenser in Chapter 29 of Taming a Seahose
The Title:
The Second Coming
by William Butler Yeats
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of i{Spiritus Mundi}
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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