WALKING SHADOW
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1994
With an unbroken string of bestselling suspense novels behind him, Robert B. Parker is nothing if not world class. Now, after the sucess of Paper Doll,
applauded by the Boston Globe as "one of the best Spensers in a decade," Parker returns with his two fisted sleuth in Walking Shadow -
a twisty, ambitious whodunit, which finds them both breaking new ground.
A Massachusetts waterfront town. A small repitory theater with a big reputation.. A soupcon of scandal. And Spenser is on the scene.
Hired by the Port City Theater Company's board of trustees to investgate the directors claim that he is being followed, Spenser feels like a fish out of water --
Until an actor is gunned down during a performance of a politically controversial play. Then Boston's premiere private cop and his cohort, Hawk, go into action, plunging
straight into the maze of motives that constitutes a master class in the difficulty reality from appearances. Spenser soon discovers that solving the actor's murder is only a piece of the puzzle. From covert
carnal connections within the community to municipal corruption with international tentacles; from petty troublemakers to major malefactors for whom murder is rarely a day at the office -- this case
has everything it takes to stump the sharpest of Sherlocks. And nobody loves a challenge more than Spenser.
Heady and sardonic, with an unpredictable cast of lovers, liars, killers and clowns, Walking
Shadow entertains even as it ponders the instability of identities. It is a thoroughly engrossing performance by a classic talent.
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Spensariums's Aphorisms and Allusions
"Never knew somebody knew more stuff that didn't matter."
Hawk to Spenser:
Taming a Seahose - Chapter 29
Dedication
"For Joan"
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.
Amoretti Sonnet
by: Edmund Spencer
Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might,
Shall handle you and hold in loves soft bands,
Lyke captives trembling at the victor¼s sight.
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look
And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright,
Written with teares in harts close bleeding book.
And happy rymes bathed in the sacred brooke,
Of Helicon whence she derived is,
When ye behold that Angels blessed looke,
My soules long lacked foode, my heavens blis.
Leaves, lines, and rymes, seeke her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.
Chapter 1
The last time I'd worked in Port City had been in Port City was when when an important software
tycoon had hired me to retrieve his wife, who had run off with a fisherman named Costa.
Her name was, incredibly, Minerva, and I found her okay.
Amoretti Sonnet
by: Edmund Spencer
Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might,
Shall handle you and hold in loves soft bands,
Lyke captives trembling at the victor¼s sight.
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look
And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright,
Written with teares in harts close bleeding book.
And happy rymes bathed in the sacred brooke,
Of Helicon whence she derived is,
When ye behold that Angels blessed looke,
My soules long lacked foode, my heavens blis.
Leaves, lines, and rymes, seeke her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.
Spenser's Libations
New Amsterdam Black and Tan (CH 4)
Sustenance
Chapter 2: (Dinner at Spenser's with Susan)
Beluga caviar with Bremner Wafers and lemon wedges (CH 2)
Grilled Lemon and Rosemary boneless chicken thighs
Brown Rice with pignolas
Assorted steamed fresh vegetables dressed with Spenser's "honey mustard splash"
Blue Corn Bread
Chapter 4: Coffee and Corn Muffins (Dunkin?) with Quirk in Spenser's office.
Chapter 5: Spenser-Cajun Fried Squid Hawk-Scallops Marcus-Red Snapper
(Lunch at Legal Seafood with Hawk and Tony Marcus)
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