"Boston (Mass.)" . . . . "Pale kings and princes [a Spenser novel]"@en . "Fiction"@en . . "Pale kings and princes"@en . "When local cops work a cover, Spenser gets his call. But clean-up is never cheap, and Spenser nearly pays the full price for this one!"@en . "Pale kings and princes" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mystery fiction"@en . "Spenser for hire"@en . . . "Detective and mystery stories, American"@en . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . "\"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action ... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction\"--Newsweek."@en . . . "Spenser investigates the death of a reporter and finds himself on the wrong side of the local sheriff and in the middle of a cocaine ring."@en . . . . .