Reply #157: Parker description

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Fitting that Parker should fall right below MacDonald on my list; these are my two favorite series of all time.

Parker may need no introduction - the series was made very famous by the TV series Spenser: For Hire. (One of the few times I thought a TV adaptation did a credible job of portraying the character of a novel.)

Spenser is a Boston private investigator who runs into the usual private eye cases, but solves them with his unusual literary flair.

There are some 40 novels in this series, so it'll last you a long time if you get hooked on them (although they may begin to seem a bit formulaic after the first 10 or 20, the writing is still great).

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