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TAMING A SEA-HORSE (Hardcover)

by Robert B. Parker (Author)

3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product Details

Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press (May 1 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385294611
ISBN-13: 978-0385294614
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #603,820 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The TV series Spenser: For Hire is adding to the fame of Parker's Boston private eye, star of 12 book thrillers. The witty, tough, idealistic Spenser recounts his latest exploits in this 13th tale, starting when he meets April Kyle again. The young prostitute settled in a safe New York City bordello at the end of the novel Ceremony, April leaves to hook for Rambeaux. She refuses to believe the man who "loves her" is a pimp supported by sad girls Spenser finds walking the streets. One of these victims and Rambeaux himself are murdered. At the same time, April vanishes, involving the detective in a search that takes him to Maine (where the dead girl was first sold), to St. Thomas and finally to a playboy-type mansion in Boston. Spenser's lover Susan and their intrepid friend Hawke team up against a virtual army of hitmen ordered to protect the profits from prostitution, among other lucrative operations run by mobsters through hirelings fronting for them in legal enterprises. The suspense never slackens in the swift, eventful novel until its surprisingly touching close. Mystery Guild main selection; Literary Guild alternate; author tour.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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In his latest highly acclaimed Spenser novel, Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency. This phenomenal bestseller, with a million-copy paperback first printing is supported by national TV advertising and a 6-month backlist reissue program. HC:Delacorte. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Run-of-the-mill Spenser, April 23 2002

By	Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Taming a Seahorse (Mass Market Paperback)

Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse (Delacorte, 1986)

One of the fun things about Robert Parker's Spenser novels is that way folks keep popping up and making Spenser's life miserable. In this case, the poppee is April Kyle, a prostitute Spenser encountered a few years before. That story didn't end to anyone's satisfaction, least of all Spenser's. Now it's time for him to find out why. April has left the employ of the madam with whom Spenser set her up to turn tricks for her new boyfriend, a woodwind player struggling through Julliard. Or so everyone's been told. Spenser starts asking around, and the more he asks, the less he finds out. Typical, huh?

In no time, one of April's associates who Spenser talked to is dead, and the pimp has had his face rearranged. There's more to this than a runaway streetwalker. Enough "more," at least, for another Spenser novel.

This isn't one of Parker's more elegant works, but then, a bad Spenser is still better than most anything else. It has all the hallmarks of Robert Parker. There's some cooking, some literature, a lot of snappy one-liners, and inherent readability. What's missing is the necessity to down the whole thing in one long swallow that pervades such Spenser gems as A Catskill Eagle and Early Autumn. But that's comparable to a pizza with one slice gone; the rest will still taste good. ***

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4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put down book, Feb 7 2002

By	Bryan Lee Coolidge "bryankodak4" (Mansfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taming a Seahorse (Mass Market Paperback)

This book Is another novel about the beloved April Kyle. If you read the first book Ceremony you leave with a feeling that you want only the best for April and you wish she could catch a break in life. Well in this book it just gets worse but in the end you get the feeling that she might just finally give up her current life of prostitution. This book I found to be another good Spencer novel and I couldn't put it down.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Spenser's hooker fetish, Oct 25 2001

By	Larry Eischen (Joliet, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Is Susan the only woman in Spenser's life who isn't a hooker? I know I'm reading the books out of order, but just in grabbing them off the shelves randomly-Ceremony, Mortal Stakes, Thin Air, Taming a Seahorse all feature Spenser riding to the rescue of once or current hookers. Oh well, in this one April Kyle, the teenage girl that Spenser and Susan thought would have a nice life as a prostitute disappears from the fancy upscale house they put her in and is doomed to work the streets. While searching for her, Spenser meets ***gasp in amazement*** another young hooker. Naturally she's not a coked-up, used up street walker, she's another in Spenser's long line of beautiful street corner girls. The girl ends up dead which leads to Spenser beating up her father, tracking her to a Hefner/Flynt clone whose men's clubs are actually highclass whorehouses, and to the club's Caribbean resort which leads to another gorgeous hooker and so on. Who killed the hooker and her pimp? Don't know, April, I assume, will go back to hooking in a manner Spenser prefers. I found the ending very puzzling-almost like Parker had to maintain a page count and he had to finish it up with no time for tying things up. There were about 20 more pages of story could have been wrung out of this one.

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