- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: No Exit Press; New edition edition (12 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842430599
- ISBN-13: 978-1842430590
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 760,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Nathan Smith, 51, is found in bed with a hole in his head it's hard not to imagine his young bride as the one with the finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she is guilty. But given that Mary Smith is entitled to the best defence she can afford - and thanks to Nathan's millions, she can afford plenty - Spenser is hired to investigate Mary's bona fides. Her alibi is flimsy - she claims she was watching TV in the other room when the murder occurred. But the couple were seen fighting at a high profile cocktail party earlier that evening and the prosecution has a witness who says Mary once tried to hire him to kill Nathan. What's more she is too pretty, too made-up, too blonde and she sleeps around - just the kind of person a jury loves to hate.
About the Author
Robert B Parker is the bestselling author of more than 30 books, including Small Vices, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise and Hush Money along with Family Honor and Perish Twice, the first two Sunny Randall mysteries (all published by No Exit). He lives in Boston.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Spenser hired to help his dumbest client ever,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Widow's Walk (Spenser Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)
Rita Fiore hired Spenser to investigate whether her client Mary Smith murdered her husband. In this 29th outing our hero has to try and help a woman who just has to be the dumbest character he has ever encountered in his entire career. Seriously. Robert B. Parker might even have given Mary the funniest line he has ever written. Rest assured, you will know it when you read it because the line simply has to be the stupidest thing ever said by a suspect to a cop in the history of detective fiction. "Widow's Walk" is very much a traditional Spenser story, where our hero gets nowhere but plugs on determinedly knowing that sooner or later he will tick somebody off. There is something of a twist to this approach this time around because although we do have the obligatory scenes where a couple of thugs try to show Spenser the error of his ways, the main thing here is the growing number of bodies he is leaving in his wake through the course of his investigation. We also learn that the end may well be near for one of the more beloved supporting players in the series. This is not a great Spenser novel, but it is a solid effort and it seems like it has been a while since we had one of those. Certainly I laughed more reading this one than I have Parker's other recent efforts. Final comment: Parker's novels have always been ideal for those of us living the commuter lifestyle, but that might make "Widow's Walk" something of a liability in hardback. I polished this book off in about two hours and that was without trying hard and stopping to explain why I was making annoying laughing sounds from time to time. That would make the per hour rate relatively high, especially compared to something like the latest Tom Clancy opus
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Spenser is hired to defend his dumbest client ever,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Widow's Walk: A Spenser Novel (Paperback)
Rita Fiore hired Spenser to investigate whether her client Mary Smith murdered her husband. In this 29th outing our hero has to try and help a woman who just has to be the dumbest character he has ever encountered in his entire career. Seriously. Robert B. Parker might even have given Mary the funniest line he has ever written. Rest assured, you will know it when you read it because the line simply has to be the stupidest thing ever said by a suspect to a cop in the history of detective fiction. "Widow's Walk" is very much a traditional Spenser story, where our hero gets nowhere but plugs on determinedly knowing that sooner or later he will tick somebody off. There is something of a twist to this approach this time around because although we do have the obligatory scenes where a couple of thugs try to show Spenser the error of his ways, the main thing here is the growing number of bodies he is leaving in his wake through the course of his investigation. We also learn that the end may well be near for one of the more beloved supporting players in the series. This is not a great Spenser novel, but it is a solid effort and it seems like it has been a while since we had one of those. Certainly I laughed more reading this one than I have Parker's other recent efforts. Final comment: Parker's novels have always been ideal for those of us living the commuter lifestyle, but that might make "Widow's Walk" something of a liability in hardback. I polished this book off in about two hours and that was without trying hard and stopping to explain why I was making annoying laughing sounds from time to time. That would make the per hour rate relatively high, especially compared to something like the latest Tom Clancy opus
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pearl's getting old; unfortunately, so's the series....,
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This review is from: Widow's Walk: A Spenser Novel (Paperback)
I agree with those that feel that the Spenser series has seen its best days. Maybe Parker realizes that also, and is using the dog Pearl's aging as a plot device hinting that time is catching up with all the characters. Yeah, Spenser must be about 70...Hawk too, and Susan not far behind. Quirk and Belsen must be ready to retire from the police department, and is that a transistor radio Vinnie Morris is always listening to, or a hearing aid? Still this isn't a bad book and spending two or three hours with it is more enjoyable than most of what you'll find on TV. Maybe some of Spenser's readers are tiring also. I saw a couple of reviews written by those who seemed to have lost out on who killed Nathan, and others who didn't see the significance of Susan's client who commits suicide compared to the possibility of Nathan's suicide, or her feeling of failure because of her client's suicide compared to Spenser's failure to protect a character who came to him for protection. All of the above shows that Parker hasn't lost it yet, but I fear he's tiring. This Spenser book does have a surplus of characters, even after a larger than usual number of them get killed. So what am I saying? I'm saying that this is a must for Spenser addicts, but only because it is Spenser. However, it is rather pedestrian and it may be that your strongest emotion in reading the book is regret that Pearl is indeed getting pretty old.
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