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Dream Girl (Paperback)

by Robert B. Parker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press (23 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842432168
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842432167
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 163,966 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When a mature, beautiful and composed April Kyle strides into Spenser's office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call girl operation in Boston's Back Bay. Still looking for Spenser's approval, it takes her a moment before she can ask him, again, for his help. Her business is a success; what's more, it's an all-female enterprise. Now that some men are trying to take it away from her, she needs Spenser's help. April claims to be in the dark about who it is that's trying to shake her down, but with a bit of legwork and a bit more muscle, Spenser and Hawk find ties to organized crime and local kingpin Tony Marcus, as well as a scheme to franchise the operation across the country. As Spenser again plays the gallant knight, it becomes clear April's not as innocent as she seems. In fact, she may be her own worst enemy.

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3.0 out of 5 stars not the best but better than most, 14 Mar 2007
By J. reynolds - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dream Girl (Hardcover)
Dream Girl is definitely not Mr Parker's best work, the plot was a bit plodding and predictable, Susan a more irritatingly knowall than ever, however, having said this, it is still streets ahead of most detective fiction. The dialogue is as spot on as ever and Spencer and Hawk make their usual winning combination.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Return to the Cerebral Spenser, 7 Dec 2007
What you get from Robert B Parker, and his hero private eye Spenser, is almost unique in modern crime fiction. While so many others offer noir pastiche or pulp fiction played for laughs, Parker unashamedly walks the same rain soiled streets that Hammett and Chandler did before him, without apologies.
Hundred Dollar Baby marks Parker's 34th Spenser novel and for his regular readers, of which I am proud to call myself one, the characters are all too well known. Unlike most detectives Spenser holds not one but two sidekicks, each serving a valuable purpose in highlighting the juxtaposition of his own character. Firstly there is Hawk, the embodiment of Spenser's macho side, reliable, imposing and most of all moral and then there is Susan Silverman, Spenser's long time partner in love and personal psychoanalyst. While Hawk allows Spenser to tread familiar private eye territory, Susan provides an outlet for Spenser's intellectual and thoughtful side, providing Parker an opportunity to philosophise in a way seldom seen in the pulp detective novel.
For this case Parker resurrects a number of characters from earlier novels. April Kyle (Ceremony & Taming A Sea Horse) walks back into Spenser's life. Despite appearing, at least on the surface, to have turned her life around, she again needs Spenser's help. But in this tale of deceit and exploitation, April turns out to be just another one of many willing to lie to Spenser to conceal the truth of what quickly becomes one of Parker's most shocking novels.
In a return to classic Spenser, the usual suspects appear more as cameos as our favourite gumshoe finds his detecting skills tested to the max. The gun is relegated to the desk drawer as this adventure finds a more cerebral Spenser than we have seen recently.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Two-Hundred-Dollar Baby???, 4 Jun 2007
By Julia M. Walker (NY Finger Lakes) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dream Girl (Hardcover)
This is Hundred-Dollar Baby in a new cover, literally. What's up with that? Is Parker trying to escape his book's so-so reviews or to make an extra buck as he double dips?

For an author with a main character who claims to be all-about-playing-fair, this is radically NO fair.

Eager Parker fans: Beware!
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2.0 out of 5 stars A Damaged Woman Breaks
Ceremony is one of Robert B. Parker's best books in the Spenser series. In that book, Susan Silverman persuades Spenser to track down teenage runaway, April Kyle, and rescue Kyle... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Professor Donald Mitchell

5.0 out of 5 stars as usual, brilliant
The very reliable Mr Parker. Great plot, great wit, great characters, little amateur psychological edge, clever touching on delicate social issues, can't-put-downable
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Published 22 months ago by Mr. John W. Shaw

5.0 out of 5 stars No one can touch Parker
Parker's effortless prose leaps off the page; his plotting as deft as ever; and his wit and intelligence are inimical. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2007 by Mr. Warren M. Fisher

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