BOSTON - Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his "Spenser" series, has died. He was ...

Robert B. Parker, whose best-selling series about a Boston detective spawned the TV show "Spenser: For Hire," died at the desk in his Massachusetts home at 77. A spokeswoman for the Cambridge police ...

BOSTON (AP) — Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his "Spenser" series, has died.

April Kyle was a teenage prostitute when Spenser tried to rescue her 25 novels ago in "Ceremony." He hasn't seen or heard from her since. So he doesn't recognize her when, elegant in a Michael Kors ...

Barbara Stock shares memories of working with Robert Urich on 'Spenser: For Hire,' from their instant chemistry to the fan ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Crime novelist Robert B. Parker is gone, but his most popular series will continue. Parker’s estate and publisher G.P. Putnam’s Sons announced Wednesday that new "Spenser" and "Jesse ...

Mike Lupica never imagined he’d one day step into the literary shoes of his friend, the late mystery novelist Robert B. Parker. But starting in 2023, Lupica took over writing Parker’s acclaimed ...

Robert B. Parker has written so many Spenser novels that they stand almost as legend, full of faces and places we've come to know by heart. The series's longevity lends the characters an air of ...

The private-eye novel is the quintessential form of the American mystery story, and for the past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre’s ...

Christopher Farnsworth says it seemed like just another email from his agent. But then Farnsworth, the author of thrillers such as “The President’s Vampire” and “Killfile,” opened it, and everything ...

BOSTON (AP) Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his "Spenser" series, has died. He ...

BOSTON (AP) — Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his "Spenser" series, has died.