TAMING A SEAHORSE
1986
From the flap of the hardback edition
April Kyle, the teenage prostitute that Spenser saved in "Ceremony,"
has made a potentially disastrous career change: she's left the
expensive brothel run by high-class madam Patricia Utley in favor of
turning tricks for the man she loves - Robert Rambeaux, supposedly a
student at Julliard.
It doesn't take Spenser long to determine that Rambeaux's interests
include more than music and his stable more than April. Spenser
questions Ginger Buckey, one of Rambeaux's hookers, and the two develop
a guarded affection for each other.
Then April disappears.
As Spenser - with the help of Hawk and Susan Silverman - searches for
April, he finds himself moving back and forth between the world of
high-class prostitute and that of her wealthy clients. Taming a
Sea-Horse, the thirteenth Spenser novel, shows us that two worlds are
not as different as they seem, for in both, the relationship between
sex, money, power, and ownership can be inextricable - and often
deadly."
From the back of the paperback edition
"Nice girls don't. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She's a hooker
hooked on the wrong guy--and she's on her way to trouble. And so's
Spenser. Looking out for April has landed him amid the sleaze of Times
Square and the shady deals of big-business boardrooms where blood money
is laundered into long green, sex is a commodity, and young girls are
the currency."
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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
Dedication:
For Joan
The Title:
My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
Nay, we'll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though
Taming a sea-ihorse, thought a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
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Spenser's Libations
Amstel Bier
Miller High Life
Labatt 50
Heineken
Harp
Wild Turkey
Remy Martin
Bourbon
Wine
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