false <![CDATA[Hugger Mugger : A Spenser Novel (Book 27)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174532809m/414739.jpg 414739 8 Why is somebody shooting Walter Clive's horses at Three Fillies Stables in Lamarr, Georgia? That's what toothy, patrician Walter wants the droll, hulking Boston detective Spenser to find out. Walter worries that his racetrack phenomenon Hugger Mugger, worth millions, is next. So Spenser goes south to a place where "the heat felt like it could be cut into squares and used to build a wall," as he puts it in the crisp Chandleresque lingo that made him famous in dozens of novels.<p> The Clive clan is one weird bunch. Take Walter's daughters, his three "fillies." Penny is like her dad, all impeccable looks and icy efficiency. Stonie and SueSue take after their sinister mom, who left the family to live with a guitarist in San Francisco and changed her name to Sherry Lark. Penny helps Dad run the business, while her soused sisters cheat on their pathetic husbands, Cord and Pud. (Pud's short for Puddle; his dad was named Poole.) As unsightly family secrets spill, Spenser feels like he's in a Tennessee Williams play. Then someone on two legs takes a bullet, and the mystery gets tense. Spenser gets plenty of sarcastic mileage out of upper-class horse-country twits, crooked security guards, dumb jocks gone to seed, and wily Southern lawyers, and the story saunters well. What's best are the endless wisecracks, the unflattering thumbnail character sketches, and sharp sentences like this one: "Like all jockeys, he was about the size of a ham sandwich, except for his hands, which appeared to be those of a stonemason." <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 1806301 3 4 2000 Hugger Mugger : A Spenser Novel (Book 27) total:701|5:104|4:263|3:294|2:35|1:5| 701 2529 858 32 4 1 false false Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 20:05:46 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 20:10:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 03:38:42 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 03:37:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:29:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:30:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Dec 29 15:40:44 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 15:42:49 -0800 2007 Parker, Robert B. - 27th in the Spenser series

Spenser is back and embroiled in a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year old destin...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 08 14:26:19 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 14:29:14 -0800 2008
When several of the Clive family horses are shot, Spenser is called in by patriarch Walter Cl...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 06:00:28 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 19:14:36 -0700 2009 another page turner.
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My review - continued:
for me, this was my first "Nero Wolf" ending. Funny that Spencer played both the roles of Archie and of Nero, at varo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 17:50:09 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 17:53:17 -0700 2009 I was reminded that one of the things I like about Parker is the way
he handles sex scenes. He lets you know something is happening
between characters, but he gives no details. Refreshing!!]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 19:03:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 19:07:39 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Sun Sep 06 11:31:42 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 11:31:55 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 21:50:09 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 21:51:56 -0800 2009 4 0 false true Fri Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Feb 08 23:55:27 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 00:04:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 07:28:01 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 08:37:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 14:14:54 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 13:08:09 -0700 2008
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Joe Mantegna is the audiobook voice; I have a problem now seeing him on television because I identify his voice as Spenser (physical description notwithstanding). He has a wonderfully dry tone ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jul 31 22:05:42 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 22:07:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=414739