Mortal Stakes, Robert B. Parker
Mortal Stakes, Robert B. Parker
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Mortal Stakes

Author: Robert B. Parker

Series: Spenser #3

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2009


Synopsis

Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.

Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16.

America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!

About The Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, Parker died in January 2010.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on October 27, 2019

With this third entry in the Spenser series, Parker creates his first thoroughly superior mystery. What makes this a first class yarn is the presence of four individualized, essentially admirable women. Now, how many hard-boiled detective novels can claim that? Don't get me wrong. This is not a girly......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on November 03, 2015

Floating this one to marvel in the glory and wonder of what a difference a few years can make to a sports franchise. Spenser is hired by an executive of the Boston Red Sox to investigate a rumor that their star pitcher, Marty Rabb, has been throwing some games, and the executive makes it clear from t......more

Goodreads review by TK421 on November 30, 2012

I was late to the Spenser party. I can't remember exactly what Spenser tale I read first, but it was somewhere around book 25 or so. Parker's style of writing: short, quick sentences, fast-paced, clothing and food descriptions galore, sprinkled with literary references was pretty much solidified by......more

Goodreads review by Ellis on January 24, 2016

I’m a sucker for simple things. While I’ll never deny that a nice passage like “Murky, storm-damp sky, shifting liquescence of indigo & slate, boiling clouds rayed with spokes of light . . . ” or the sweetness of the “heaving gloss of a gardenia bush”* makes my knees weak with literary ebullience, m......more

Goodreads review by Bill on November 10, 2023

An intriguing mystery. Well written, believable, and sympathetic characters. A tough, witty, smart ass, private eye as the main character. The Spenser books keep improving with each entry.......more