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Spenser

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Spenser	comment	The Spenser novels are a long-running series of detective stories by Robert B. Parker, starring the eponymous private eye. Based in Boston with frequent excursions to other areas, the novels were much more experimental early on before settling into a comfortable niche (or, as some might say, rut). The series is one of the most popular and influential modern works both inside and outside its genre (itâ€™s, most notably for this particular wiki, a large influence on both Peter David and The Dresden Files), and Parker has been called the modern successor to Raymond Chandler.Spenser used to be a cop, but was quickly bounced from the force for being insubordinate. He now works as a private investigator in Boston. With his best friend Hawk for backup, and occasional psychological consultation from his girlfriend Susan Silverman, Spenser's cases tend to start off simply before spinning wildly out of control.There have been several adaptations of the Spenser series. The first, and best known is Spenser: For Hire (1985-88) which aired for 3 seasons on ABC, and starred Robert Urich as Spenser, with Avery Brooks as Hawk. The series spawned a short-lived Spin-Off A Man Called Hawk (1989) starring Brooks, as well as a mid-90s series of TV movies, directly based on the novels, airing on the Lifetime network, with Urich and Brooks returning again reprising their roles.From 1999-2001, A&E produced a trilogy of TV movies starring Joe Mantegna as Spenser and Marcia Gay Harden as Susan, with Parker adapting the films himself. In 2020, Netflix released Spenser Confidential, an extremely loose adaptation of Ace Atkins' Wonderland, starring Mark Wahlberg, with Winston Duke as Hawk.
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Spenser / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Spenser / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Parker appears in the Lifetime movie version of Small Vices as the CIA agent Ives, and his son Daniel plays Lee Farrell. In Playmates, Spenser notices someone's defaced a table in a restaurant with "RP + JH," surrounded by a heart: Parker and his wife's initials.
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Spenser / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Spenser / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Clives from Hugger Mugger. Let's see here, the mother of the three girls was a hippie who ran off with a guitarist when the girls were in their teens, their father Walter really got around, SueSue is a Lady Drunk married to an alcoholic, and Wyatt is gay and uses his wife Stonie as The Beard. The most normal seeming one is Penny and the crux of the whole plot is Walter's illegitimate son Jason with Dolly, a self-described courtesan, whose inclusion in the will, where it was to be stated that he'd be given control of the business, prompted Walter's murder.
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Spenser / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Spenser / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Kickback is based on an actual incident in Pennsylvania, where two corrupt judges were condemning juvenile offenders to unjustified sentences at a private-sector detention facility whose owner was paying them off. The antagonist of Little White Lies, with his gray hair and purported CIA ties, sounds an awful lot like imprisoned Fox News "expert" Wayne Simmons.
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Spenser / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Spenser / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Several families, usually leading to the central conflict of a particular book, but the most regular one is between Joe Broz, and his son Gerry. Gerry believes he's as tough as his father, and Joe certainly wants Gerry to take over his "business", but it becomes obvious that Gerry doesn't have what it takes. (It gets to where Joe's "shooter", Vinnie, quits rather then deal with the family drama.)
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Spenser / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Spenser / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Spenser, when referring to his looks, is more of an Ironic Narrator. He describes himself as looking like Cary Grant (and in later novels Tom Cruise), but most other characters seem to view him as the Irish ex-boxer tough he is. He also refers to his irresistible smile, but mostly in the context that he can't understand why it's not working on whichever woman he's trying to sweet talk.
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Spenser / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Spenser / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Spenser is 37 in the first novel in the series and a Korean War veteran, but afterwards, is rarely allowed to exhibit signs of aging. If you read a bunch of books in a row, this can become bizarre, as Spenser progresses from using an answering service and needing to find pay phones to modern books where he has a computer and a cell phone, all while stubbornly ignoring the fact that he should be in his mid-80s.
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Spenser / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Spenser / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Both Spenser and Hawk, naturally.
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Spenser / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Spenser / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Spenser and Hawk.
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Spenser / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Spenser / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: Clive Stapleton from Small Vices is black but was adopted by a wealthy white couple. While it's evident his parents do care about him, to the point of arranging for another man to take the fall for his girlfriend's accidental killing there's clearly a level of this at play, especially when his mother is explaining to Spenser why they adopted him and she specifically cites saving him from "a life of depravity."
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Spenser / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Spenser / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When Spenser is escorting Jill Joyce in Stardust, she mentions that one of her TV show's shooting locations in Boston is an abandoned firehouse, which is roughly in the same location as the firehouse from the "Spenser: For Hire" TV show.
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Spenser / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Spenser / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Most of Spenser's adversaries have enough honor of their own that they try to avoid hitting him through Susan, but the one time somebody tried going after him while she was around, Susan waited until their backs were turned and knocked a guy out with a rock she pried out of a nearby garden arrangement. She also ends up dealing with Spenser's Stalker with a Crush in Hush Money by giving her a good left hook in the face and promising that, if the woman ever comes near Spenser again, she won't be so restrained next time.
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Spenser / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
Spenser / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: In Hush Money, "doing a Brodie" is used in reference to an apparent suicide jumper.
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Spenser / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Spenser / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Hawk, though a certain part of it is cultivated intentionally. He manages to intimidate a witness into cooperation with one short sentence in Widow's Walk, which Spenser chalks up to the fact that Hawk genuinely does not care what happens to her. On the other hand, Hawk is invariably popular with children, and is frequently shown amusing himself by playing into or against various stereotypes.
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Spenser / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Spenser / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Jocelyn Colby of Walking Shadow.
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Spenser / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Spenser / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Susan spends a number of the later novels as a potential target for whoever Spenser's managed to annoy that week. Spenser's typical reaction is to bury her office in trusted gunmen. This, naturally, irritates her to no end.
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Spenser / int_42beac64	type	The Magnificent Seven Samurai
Spenser / int_42beac64	comment	The Magnificent Seven Samurai: In Potshot, Spenser assembles a Badass Crew of six allies (plus himself) to rid an Arizona town of a gang of outlaws.
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Spenser / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
Spenser / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: Spenser is often one bad day or bad decision away from being an outright criminal, and his solutions to problems often involve a hefty amount of blackmail, theft, or B&E. His primary motivator in most cases is his own somewhat inconsistent sense of morality, which frequently ends up being defined entirely by a reluctance to just let Hawk shoot everyone.
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Spenser / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Spenser / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The running joke in the books is that Spenser operates under the delusion that he's Sir Gawain. He's mostly guided by his own occasionally-idiosyncratic sense of right and wrong, which often complicates his life and his cases. Despite this, he's not actually delusional and just admires the old codes of honor and tries to live according to them as best he can, and is perfectly willing to push it aside when necessary.
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Spenser / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Spenser / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: After Spenser manages to arrest Rugar, the Gray Man, in Small Vices, he appears twice more, in Cold Service and Rough Weather. In both subsequent books, he and Spenser treat one another like old rivals whenever they meet, rather than embittered enemies. (It may help that Rugar views Spenser as 'the one that got away,' and Spenser having a decent plan to capture him in return and use him to go after someone else.) They also each recognizes that their counterpart has certain rules in what they do; part of the "fun" is working with and around them.
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Spenser / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Spenser / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: The three primary characters, Spenser, Susan, and Hawk, all evolve gradually over the course of the series. Hawk in particular is notable, as he comes off as much angrier in the earlier novels. Spenser is far more world-weary in early books, particularly in Promised Land, where his irritation at the prospect of tracking down yet another runaway wife due to her sudden discovery of 1970s-style radical feminism gets him in a fight with Susan. He also inexplicably loses his interest in fine cigars and woodworking after the first few books, although the former habit occasionally appeared in Robert Urich's depiction of the character. Susan's complete inability to cook is a relatively late addition.
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Spenser / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Spenser / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: A Savage Place is the only Spenser novel where he completely and unequivocally fails at what he was hired to do - protect Candy Sloan's life. He does find who did it and bring them to justice, but technically speaking, that wasn't what he was hired for. Hundred Dollar Baby also has a pretty black ending since April shoots herself after Spenser discovers just how thoroughly fucked up she is
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Spenser / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Spenser / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: The series often deals with Parker's ideas of how people ought to live and how a man ought to act, as indicated via Spenser's actions and narration. This is about half an author tract and half Parker trying very deliberately to echo Raymond Chandler's ideas about how the private-eye genre should work; Spenser is in many ways the "man of honor" from Chandler's "The Simple Art of Murder."
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Spenser / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Spenser / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Spenser hasn't been so much as seriously injured in a book since he was nearly killed in Small Vices, which was published in 1997. It's a rare opponent that can so much as slow him down, and you can count the fights he's actually lost over the course of the series on the fingers of one hand. If Hawk is also involved in the fight, it is generally indicated that you would need an armored division to stop them. Ace Atkins' continuation of the series seems to be trying to avert this without going too far away from Parker's depiction. Spenser still wins most of his fights, but it takes more effort from him, and he takes a bit more damage as well, when he used to be practically untouchable.
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Spenser / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Spenser / int_537dd8fe	comment	Two of the villains in Mortal Stakes are an Affably Evil Fat Bastard and The Dragon, a little asshole whose Berserk Button is being made fun of, much like in The Maltese Falcon.
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Spenser / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Spenser / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Hawk started this way, being someone Spenser knew from a gym they both went to, and they were pleasant to each other even when on opposite sides. Later upgraded to actual allies by the end of Promised Land, where Spenser warns Hawk that the deal is a set up, giving him time to get away and later Hawk refuses to shoot Spenser.
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Spenser / int_5cd4cebb	type	No Badass to His Valet
Spenser / int_5cd4cebb	comment	No Badass to His Valet: Neither Spenser nor Hawk intimidate Susan Silverman in the slightest. For that matter, Rachel Wallace isn't much intimidated by either of them either.
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Spenser / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Spenser / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Reversal; a grown-up April Kyle tries to put the moves on Spenser, but he flatly refuses. His narration indicates that when he first sees her as an adult he initially thinks she's good looking, but as soon as he figures out who she is paternal instinct takes over and he feels no sexual attraction to her at all.
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Spenser / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Spenser / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: In Small Vices Spenser is describing how Susan is making a beet risotto and then lists all the equipment and vegetable scraps she's used and left on the counter, which in some editions takes up nearly half the page. He ends it by saying she's not exactly a "clean as you cook" type.
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Spenser / int_626f55cc	type	Said Bookism
Spenser / int_626f55cc	comment	Said Bookism: Averted, almost too much. Parker rarely uses anything other than "said" during conversations, and while it's fine to read, listening to one of the books on tape/cd/mp3/whatever will have you feeling that you hear the word "said" too often, since much of the novels consist of conversations between two characters that are made up of rather short sentences.
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Spenser / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
Spenser / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: April Kyle in Ceremony, eventually growing up into a Miss Kitty, albeit an extremely messed up one.
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Spenser / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Spenser / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Both of Parker's sons, Daniel and David, are openly gay. This is widely thought to have had an influence on Parker's novels, as they often deal with a wide variety of gay characters, ranging from the heroic to the pathetic. There is room for an interpretation of the series where Parker is using his writing as a method to slowly come to terms with his sons' homosexuality, which also explains the sheer number of male gay supporting characters in the later books.
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Spenser / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Spenser / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Many of Spenser's hobbies, such as reading poetry and cooking, mirror Parker's own. Both Spenser and Parker were also veterans of the Korean War. This is further illustrated by Parker's author photo, on the back covers of several of his books' paperback editions, where Parker is essentially cosplaying as Spenser: jeans, leather jacket, walking a dog named Pearl. Parker's son David has said in interviews that Paul Giacomin, Spenser's adopted son, is based on him. In later books, Paul pursued a similar career path to David, as a dancer and choreographer. On the other hand, Parker's wife Joan gets really irritated when people assume she's the basis for Susan Silverman.
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Spenser / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
Spenser / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: The play "Handy Dandy" featured in Walking Shadow is extremely confusing and obtuse, and when interviewing the playwright Leonard O (who proves to be an enormous snob) about the case, Spenser lampshades it to hell and back and manages to catch O off guard when he points out that he stole the Tiresias stuff from T. S. Eliot. O insists it was a "homage" but Spenser isn't fooled.
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Spenser / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
Spenser / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink: Spenser's life partner Susan Silverman is one of The Awesome Shrink variety; not only does she care for her own patients, but she also helps Spenser anytime he has a crisis of conscience. She also shares insight on possible motivations and mindsets of suspects in his cases.
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Spenser / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Spenser / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: April Kyle kills herself when Spenser finds out the extent of her deceit.
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Spenser / int_704a3bbb	type	Real Men Cook
Spenser / int_704a3bbb	comment	Real Men Cook: Spenser cooks at home, to an almost restaurant-level quality. In contrast, Susan is implied in later books to be capable of burning water.
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Spenser / int_73309776	type	Psycho Sidekick
Spenser / int_73309776	comment	Psycho Sidekick: Hawk is the Trope Codifier. Especially when he kills the physically powerless villain in Early Autumn. He mellows considerably as the books go on, although most of it is expressed via a good-humored willingness to play things Spenser's way. Cold Service, on the other hand, is a stark reminder of how ruthless he actually is.
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Spenser / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Spenser / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: DeSpain in Walking Shadow.
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Spenser / int_799fbc45	type	Can't Tie His Tie
Spenser / int_799fbc45	comment	Can't Tie His Tie: Paul, in Early Autumn. Spenser has to stand behind him to do it for him.
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Spenser / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Spenser / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Played with. Spenser is talking to Del Rio and Chollo about a case he's on, and they are playing chess as he is talking to them, taking their time between moves and nodding at what the other does. However, his internal monologue reveals: "I didn't play chess. I had no idea what they were doing."
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Spenser / int_7dccc8ed	type	Raised by Dudes
Spenser / int_7dccc8ed	comment	Raised by Dudes: Spenser has pointed out, several times, that after his mother died, it was up to his father and uncles to take care of him; this included teaching him how to hunt, cook, and do housework. If it needed to be done, it got done.
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Spenser / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Spenser / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: Frequent supporting character Patricia Utley runs a high-end escort service in New York City. April Kyle later tries to set up a similar branch in Boston's Back Bay (an extremely ritzy area). In Hugger Mugger Spenser meets a lesbian in Georgia who runs such an enterprise, though she sends out the problem girls to do blow jobs at truck stops (which is what Stonie did as revenge to her husband). From the same book, Dolly describes herself as a courtesan, and when asked how she knows that her son Jason's father was Walter Clive her response is "I was a courtesan. I am not a whore."
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Spenser / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Spenser / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Spenser is of the opinion that anything bigger than a 9mm pistol is, unless you intend to be fighting a finback whale, overkill. Hawk does not agree, and habitually carries a .44 Magnum, which Spenser often compares to an anti-aircraft weapon.
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Spenser / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Spenser / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: In Hugger Mugger, Penny gets away with murder. However, she freely admits in front of a police officer that she had her sisters held against their will in the family house, ostensibly to help them "dry out" and get away from their bad husbands. This is kidnapping, no matter how you spin it, but no one seems to notice that she just admitted being guilty of a crime that carries almost as severe a penalty as murder. This is somewhat justified, however, in that the Clive family wields a lot of financial and social power in the area, and Penny's admission is meant to be seen by the reader as the first crack in her armor. The cops are going to get her for something, sooner or later, if not necessarily this.
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Spenser / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Spenser / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Tedy Sapp is an ex-Airborne weightlifter and nightclub bouncer with a black belt in karate, and on par with both Spenser and Hawk for sheer badass potential. He actually dyes his hair a very bright blond in order to gay himself up a bit. (He explains that it's to help the bar's gay clientele trust him as a bouncer.)
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Spenser / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Spenser / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Spenser is a gourmet cook, has read (and can quote) all of the classics, enjoys poetry and ballet, and is absolutely capable of ending you in a dozen ways should the need arise. While Hawk spends a lot of time amusing himself by pretending to be an ignorant thug, he speaks at least three languages, listens to classical music, travels widely, is always impeccably dressed for the time period (sometimes he's dressed like a tasteful pimp, but it's impeccable), and has a taste for fine wines. He's also a former member of the French Foreign Legion and is, among other things, a hitman; Hawk sits out the action in Painted Ladies because he's been hired to do some freelance work for the CIA. Whatever he's doing when he's not hanging out with Spenser, it pays very well.
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Spenser / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
Spenser / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: Spenser never says how he feels emotionally, even in his internal monologue. He only describes how he feels physically, and what he is doing. Despite this, the reader never has any doubt about how he feels - he occasionally throws up after being forced to kill people, and when Susan leaves him he drinks a lot and even has trouble hitting the heavy bag at the gym - no rhythm, just sledgehammering it.
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Spenser / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
Spenser / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: The fictional city of Marshport in Cold Service is very similar to the real-life city of Fall River, Massachusetts. Port City could also easily be one of several cities on the North Shore.
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Spenser / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Spenser / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: Spenser has gradually developed a crew of badasses who will often come running when he asks, most of whom are professional criminals. This includes Hawk; Chollo and Bobby Horse, two mob enforcers and gunmen for an LA-based crimelord; local mafioso gunslinger Vinnie Morris; local Boston cop Lee Farrell; and the ex-Airborne bouncer Tedy Sapp.
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Spenser / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Spenser / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: A double whammy in Hush Money; Susan asks Spenser to help an old friend who is being stalked by a former lover, which quickly becomes awkward when the old friend, who is somewhat unstable and neurotic, ends up developing an obsession with Spenser.
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Spenser / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Spenser / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Parker was dedicated to averting this trope, since Susan was not only a professional therapist who offered Spenser advice, but was the therapist to Sunny Randall as well. There are no therapists, because they're all in this series. Constantly. To the point of parody.
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Spenser / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Spenser / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: It's a rare book where somebody doesn't try to put the moves on Spenser, ranging from clients to criminals to unfaithful wives. He's only allowed himself to actually be unfaithful to Susan once, and it didn't end well, so now he just admires the women and occasionally flirts back.
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Spenser / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Spenser / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Averted, especially in the earlier books which is somewhat ironic considering he's also an Invincible Hero. Spenser is pretty much unstoppable in a fight, but if he does take serious damage, especially being shot, it's portrayed with almost brutal realism. He takes hours to be capable of continuing with a case after being hit on the head in Looking For Rachel Wallace and is pretty clearly at least mildly concussed. When he is shot in the very first novel (The Godwulf Manuscript), a small-caliber wound to his side that "only" breaks a rib and tears some muscles puts him in the hospital for two days. Further shootings in Judas Goat, Widening Gyre, Valediction, Pastime, and especially Small Vices and Cold Service also show Spenser or Hawk needing time to recover from their wounds, often including hospital stays.
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Spenser / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Spenser / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: In Walking Shadow, the complete lack of pubic hair in a photograph of a woman helps identify her.
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Spenser / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Spenser / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: In Cold Service Hawk is nearly killed protecting a family (all of whom save one child die), and once he recovers he and Spenser set out to take down the ones responsible. Spenser himself has an overdeveloped sense of personal responsibility, and will frequently pursue a case to its conclusion based entirely upon that. It's rarely actually personal for him, but Spenser tends to act as though it is.
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Spenser / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Spenser / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: In a series that mostly concerns itself with a private eye doing private eye things, A Catskill Eagle reads vaguely like a Mack Bolan novel. While its events are still in the novels' continuity, to go by a couple of very rare references in later books, both fans and Parker seem content to ignore it. There's one mention in Hugger Mugger that may count as a Discontinuity Nod, when Susan says that she treats it like something that never happened.
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Spenser / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Spenser / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Pastime is in large part a deck-clearing exercise, where Parker sits down and figures out what Spenser's background is once and for all. Before that book, there are occasional mentions of Spenser's family or childhood, some of which conflict with the official version. Parker dealt with the discrepancies by citing what a colleague called, paraphrased, "the right of the author to come up with a better idea"; in short, if two facts collide in the novels, the later version is the correct one.
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Spenser / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Spenser / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: One of Spenser's go-to tactics is to not let people realize he's actually remarkably smart. He's a six-foot ex-boxer with a weightlifter's build and a frequently-broken nose, so when he first meets someone, absolutely no one expects him to be of even average intelligence.
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Spenser / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Spenser / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Spenser, as well as almost every member of his supporting cast. With very few exceptions, the most notable of which is Vinnie Morris, being a complete wiseass in a Parker novel is shorthand for competence. Any characters without senses of humor, or who take themselves too seriously, always seem to end up being idiots, antagonists, or both at once.
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Spenser / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Spenser / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: One of the greats.
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Spenser / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Spenser / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Whenever a villain pets a dog and someone wonders why, Spenser will remark "Hitler liked dogs" to point out that even evil people can have good points to them. While the phrasing varies, if he has no better clues to investigate, Spenser will follow even incredibly flimsy leads, his reasoning going basically along the lines of "If I assume the clue is a coincidence, I have nowhere to go. If I assume it is not a coincidence, I do." "A good big person will beat a good small person every time." "Readiness is all" The TV series gave Hawk "Spensaar!"
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Spenser / int_b3ac07aa	type	AmusingInjury
Spenser / int_b3ac07aa	comment	Amusing Injury: Spenser's constant self-depreciating inner monologue tends to turn any injury he incurs into this. The champion example is when he gets shot with a small-caliber handgun in The Judas Goat. If you ask Spenser, it was a slight wound to the "upper thigh"; ask the doctor who treated him, and he was shot in the arse. (A later book did have him acknowledge, in a conversation with Susan, that he was indeed shot in the ass. Maybe enough time had passed? And she would have ended up seeing any scars, anyway.)
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Spenser / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Spenser / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Parker, who had a doctorate in English literature from Boston University, apparently had a low opinion of teachers and professors. In the novels where Spenser must investigate a case on or near a college or high school campus (Playmates, School Daze, Hush Money), almost every teacher or administrator he encounters is completely out of touch with reality. There are exceptions, but they're rare, and usually clock in at one per book. Relatedly, Susan initially started as a school guidance counselor, but eventually left to pursue private practice, citing administrative drama as one reason. In fact, the very first line in the very first book in the series, is Spenser comparing a University dean's office to a "successful Victorian whorehouse".
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Spenser / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Spenser / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Spenser is repeatedly described by other characters as looking like a generic Irish thug; he's tall, has a weightlifter's build, and you can tell just by looking at him that he used to be a boxer (among other things his nose has been repeatedly broken, and he has the telltale scarring around the eyes that boxers develop). He's also a talented, mostly self-taught gourmet cook; possesses an Encyclopaedic Knowledge of English literature; and knows a great deal about psychology that he's absorbed from Susan.
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Spenser / int_c69902e7	type	Church of Happyology
Spenser / int_c69902e7	comment	Church of Happyology: HELIOS, in Angel Eyes. Spenser even name-drops L. Ron Hubbard for the comparison.
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Spenser / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Spenser / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Characters from the Spenser series often show up in Parker's other novels. Both Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall have appeared in Spenser's stories, while most of Spenser's supporting cast have shown up in those books. Spenser himself did not appear outside his home series during Parker's lifetime, and even then, it wasn't until the 2022 Sunny Randall novel Revenge Tour. Spenser occasionally runs into Boston-area celebrities, although they never have a speaking role. The books are full of cultural references, ranging from old movies to Hemingway to various poets. T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and E. E. Cummings are quoted the most often, with several novels taking their titles from Yeats's "The Second Coming." Spenser often quotes "my strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure." This is a line from the poem "Sir Galahad" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In the earlier books, Spenser often compares himself to famous fictional gumshoes as part of his running internal monologue. Two of the villains in Mortal Stakes are an Affably Evil Fat Bastard and The Dragon, a little asshole whose Berserk Button is being made fun of, much like in The Maltese Falcon. Quirk's line to a thug in Paper Dolls, "Is this one smart? Is this one a quick learner?" is a Hemingway quote. Hawk introduces himself to a mook in Pale Kings and Princes as Mr. Tibbs. Spenser's "Crimestopper Tips," which he occasionally mentions in his narration in the earlier novels, are a reference to a feature that used to appear in "Dick Tracy's" Sunday strips. Ring Lardner's line "Shut up, he explained" appears very frequently, almost once a book, usually changed to the first person.
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Spenser / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Spenser / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: In the later novels, Hawk often wears a black leather trenchcoat or duster.
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Spenser / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Spenser / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Lillian Temple in Hush Money, a somewhat pompous and disdainful leftist academic Spenser encounters while investigating why his client, a conservative-leaning African-American, was denied tenure by the university. Even after Spenser uncovers evidence that she deliberately sabotaged his tenure hearing because she didn't consider him politically correct enough by lying that he was having a homosexual affair with a student despite having ample reason to believe that he was heterosexual — because she was cheating on her boyfriend with him, he still marvels that she manages to find a way to twist the situation so that she can act with pious self-righteousness about it.
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Spenser / int_d9eee868	type	Spin-Off
Spenser / int_d9eee868	comment	Spinoff: A Man Called Hawk began on ABC in 1989 after Spenser For Hire was canceled; it only lasted for thirteen episodes, though.
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Spenser / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
Spenser / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: In Hush Money, Spenser encounters a Neo-Nazi homophobe who is gay.
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Spenser / int_dd08dba9	type	Token Black Friend
Spenser / int_dd08dba9	comment	Token Black Friend: Averted, then played straight. Spenser's best friend Hawk first enters the series as an antagonist, but starting with The Judas Goat, he assists Spenser in many cases. In some of the books, Hawk comes across as the sidekick, albeit one who is just as competent as Spenser if not moreso, but later novels have evened the playing field dramatically. In Double Deuce and Cold Service, Spenser is essentially a supporting character in Hawk's book.
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Spenser / int_df18bfaf	type	Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy
Spenser / int_df18bfaf	comment	Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy: Crime boss Tony Marcus has two main henchman: Junior, who is enormous and serves as his muscle, and Ty Bop, who does any shooting that needs to be done.l
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Spenser / int_e0a077fa	type	Miss Kitty
Spenser / int_e0a077fa	comment	Miss Kitty: Patricia Utley, introduced in Mortal Stakes and her protegee, April Kyle, though the latter is much less stable and successful.
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Spenser / int_e2f5760	type	House Husband
Spenser / int_e2f5760	comment	House Husband: Spenser is admittedly a better housekeeper, cook, and general domestic than his live-in girlfriend Susan Silverman, as she is the first to admit. But then, he is a Cultured Badass.
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Spenser / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
Spenser / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: Featured in Walking Shadow, based out of Port City. They employ young immigrant men from Vietnam as Elite Mooks.
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Spenser / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Spenser / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Raymond Chandler wrote a critical essay in 1950 called "The Simple Art of Murder," which codified many of the "rules," as he saw them, for writing a detective story's protagonist. When writing the Spenser stories, Robert Parker treated "The Simple Art of Murder" like an itemized checklist, and was heavily influenced by Chandler besides. As such, Spenser as a character bears more than a few similarities to Philip Marlowe, although the two are both products of their respective times. It's probably not a coincidence that both Marlowe and Spenser share names with 16th-Century English poets. The antagonist of Someone To Watch Over Me is a renamed Jeffrey Epstein. It becomes increasingly blatant as the book continues, up to the point where Spenser and Hawk are forced to infiltrate his private island. Similarly, Bye Bye Baby is essentially Spenser being hired to protect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, But She's In Boston.
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Spenser / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Spenser / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Parker, a Boston native who is usually very good about the geography and landmarks of his hometown, makes a fairly major error in Potshot. When Spenser, Hawk and Vinnie are starting their road trip to the town of Potshot, he talks about them heading out on the Mass Pike at 8 in the morning with the sun in their eyes. Since they are leaving Boston, that means they are driving directly west - the sun is behind themnote Solar-glare induced slowdowns are a major issue for the morning eastbound rush hour traffic in Boston.
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Spenser / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Spenser / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Spenser has a first name, but it's never been revealed to the reader. According to Parker, it's because Spenser was initially meant to be named after his first son, but Parker figured that would be unfair to his second son. Eventually, Parker just decided to keep it a mystery (he tells a client his first name in Stardust without the reader finding out what it is), although it's not a secret to the characters. Just about everyone he knows just calls him Spenser. That being said, Hawk has a real fondness for "Jack" when addressing Spenser.
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Spenser / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Spenser / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In Promised Land a female martial artist lands one on Spenser, but he's been on the receiving end enough times to power through it and knock her on her ass, where he then tells her not to rely solely on that trick. He does allow himself a minute or two of deep breathing to get through the worst of it after he knocks her down.
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Spenser / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Spenser / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Jesse Stone shows up in Back Story, along with several of his co-workers. Spenser and Hawk cross over into the Sunny Randall series in Revenge Tour.
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Spenser / int_ee0c0a79	type	Professional Sex Ed
Spenser / int_ee0c0a79	comment	Professional Sex Ed: Goes horribly wrong in Crimson Joy, in which the serial killer turns out to be acting out his rage at sex workers because of an incident when his abusive father hired one to "make a man of him", and she humiliated him when he couldn't perform.
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Spenser / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Spenser / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: In Small Vices Patricia Utley has a miniature bull terrier named Rosie who Spenser at first mistakes for an aardvark. In the Sunny Randall series Sunny has the same type of dog, also named Rosie, but it's probably not the same dog.
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Spenser / int_f011deb5	type	Strong and Skilled
Spenser / int_f011deb5	comment	Strong and Skilled: Discussed by Spenser. If a trained person fights an untrained person, the trained person will win; if two people of equal skill fight, the stronger person will win. Thus, it's important to be both strong and skilled.
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Spenser / int_f0893a50	type	Jewish American Princess
Spenser / int_f0893a50	comment	Jewish American Princess: Susan jokingly refers to herself as this, though she's far too down to earth to actually count.
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Spenser / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Spenser / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Robert Parker began his professional career as a food critic, and it shows. Spenser's a talented chef and often eats at gourmet restaurants—though he actually disclaims the compliment "chef" in Promised Land, commenting that a woman who cooks as he does would be called a housewife. His cooking gets fancier as the series progresses, though. In a subversion, Susan can barely boil water, and when she serves a fancy dinner cheats by ordering takeout and serving it prettily.
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Spenser / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Spenser / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Though not as over-the-top as other examples, Susan proves that she has a bit of Masshole in her in Hugger Mugger when driving to Saratoga in her new Mercedes convertible, and after changing lanes for no apparent reason and cutting off a Cadillac delivers a pleasant "Fuck you" when the driver honks at her. Spenser remarks that the only thing keeping him from being terrified is his trust in her.
Spenser / int_f96f188c	featureApplicability	1.0
Spenser / int_f96f188c	featureConfidence	1.0
Spenser	hasFeature	Spenser / int_f96f188c
Spenser / int_fb5ab090	type	Loan Shark
Spenser / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: A major plot point in Promised Land.
Spenser / int_fb5ab090	featureApplicability	1.0
Spenser / int_fb5ab090	featureConfidence	1.0
Spenser	hasFeature	Spenser / int_fb5ab090
Spenser / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
Spenser / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: SueSue Clive from Hugger Mugger. Her husband is a straight up alcoholic who is stated to always be drunk any time after noon. There are several more of these throughout the series, like KC Roth or Ronni Alexander.
Spenser / int_fdb3b2b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Spenser / int_fdb3b2b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Spenser	hasFeature	Spenser / int_fdb3b2b5
Spenser / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Spenser / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Whenever a villain pets a dog and someone wonders why, Spenser will remark "Hitler liked dogs" to point out that even evil people can have good points to them.
Spenser / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Spenser / int_ff7f34c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Spenser	hasFeature	Spenser / int_ff7f34c5
Spenser / int_name	type	ItemName
Spenser / int_name	comment
Spenser / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Spenser / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Spenser	hasFeature	Spenser / int_name
Spenser / int_name	itemName	Spenser

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Spenser	hasFeature	A Tankard of Moose Urine / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Always Save the Girl / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Aroused by Their Voice / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Balls of Steel / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Because I'm Good At It / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Big Guy Rodeo / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Billed Above the Title / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Chandler's Law / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Church of Happyology / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Clipboard of Authority / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Confirmation Bias / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Creator Provincialism / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Double Tap / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Dressed in Layers / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Erotic Asphyxiation / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	First-Person Smartass / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Fountain of Expies / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Gayngst-Induced Suicide / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Gun Stripping / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Hardboiled Detective / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Hates Being Touched / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Hollywood Spelling / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	I Gave My Word / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	I Know Karate / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	I Like My X Like I Like My Y / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Intelligence Equals Isolation / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Irishman and a Jew / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	It's What I Do / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Jewish American Princess / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Kevlard / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Literary Allusion Title / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Nerves of Steel / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	No Badass to His Valet / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	No Full Name Given / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Off the Record / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Person as Verb / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Pretty Fly for a White Guy / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Private Eye Monologue / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Professional Sex Ed / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Raised by Dudes / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Red-Light District / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Revealing Cover-Up / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Seduction-Proof Marriage / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Sleeping Single / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Soul Brotha / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Sparing Them the Dirty Work / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Suicide, Not Murder / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Super Fly Reflexes / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Take Me Out at the Ball Game / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	The Adjectival Man / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	The Alleged Car / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	The Magnificent Seven Samurai / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	The Runaway / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Undisclosed Funds / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Vomiting Cop / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	Waif-Fu / int_6a8d182d
Spenser	hasFeature	With My Hands Tied / int_6a8d182d

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