Best Selling Books by Robert B. Parker

A hunt for a stolen painting turns into a murder investigation for Spenser, Robert B. Parker''s legendary private eye.

Classic Boston noir thriller from global bestseller, the late, great Robert B. Parker - one of contemporary crime fiction''s most popular, enduring and acclaimed authors ''I spotted the girl even before she knocked on my door.'' Mattie Sullivan has approached Spenser for help, asking him to find her mother''s killer. But her mother was killed some four years back; and a local man, Mickey Green, was convicted of her murder that very same year. Mattie is not Spenser''s typical client. For a start, she''s just fourteen. Nor is her request a typical one - to take a case that''s already been solved. But this kid is wiser than her years. And this case is less clear-cut, and far more dangerous, than it appears. ''One of the great series in the history of the American detective story'' New York Times

Parker completes Chandler''s four chapter fragment of a Philip Marlowe novel.

Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to eat alone. I didn''t look in the mirror again. Spenser likes to eat well, drink beer, and carve wood on his off-time. But otherwise he''s Spenser for Hire, a wise-acre PI who takes on every case with good humour and brilliant instincts. When Spenser is hired to look into the disappaearance of a medieval manuscript, stolen from a university library, he feels confident it''ll be an easy case. A young university student has been accused of the theft, and Spenser is convinced she''s innocent. It''s not long, however, before he''s plunged into a quagmire of angry professors, bored housewives, heroin traffickers, Satanists and the Boston mob... and murder. The Godwulf Manuscript is the first in Robert B. Parker''s long-running Spenser For Hire series: dark, funny, noir-inspired and utterly unmissable. Inspired by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, The Godwulf Manuscript is not to be missed. ''When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he''s an influence, and the rest of us lie about it'' HARLAN COBEN

''One of the great series in the history of the detective story'' New York Times Book Review A young girl has been found dead in a hotel room. The womanizing movie star Jumbo Nelson is the obvious suspect. Given that he spent the night with her. But he''s innocent. Or at least he says he is. Enter Spenser. Jumbo''s lawyers hire him to find out who did it. Never one to turn down a challenge, Spenser starts to investigate. He finds an unlikely ally in the shape of Jumbo''s bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill. He''s an alcoholic Cree warrior with a bad past and a worse temper. But given that there''s a cold-blooded assassin on the loose, he might just prove to be the secret weapon Spenser needs. ''Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin'' Boston Observer

Political activist and author Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman who writes - and speaks - her mind, which has made her a lot of enemies. But she''s got a new book due out, exposing discriminatory practices by several prominent corporations, and it''s pretty clear some of those enemies want her dead. ''Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing'' New York Times Book Review Her publishers, insisting she has a bodyguard, hire the biggest toughest guy they can find: Spenser, the tough guy with a macho code of honour, hired to protect a feminist who thinks that code is obsolete. ''Nobody does it better'' Publishers Weekly Privately, they will never see eye to eye - that''s why she fires him - but when Rachel vanishes, Spenser starts rattling skeletons in blue-blooded family closets and tangling with the Ku Klux Klan, ready to lay his life on the line to find Rachel Wallace.

Now in its 14th edition, Nobes and Parker''s Comparative International Accounting is a comprehensive and coherent text on international financial reporting. It is primarily designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in comparative and international aspects of financial reporting. The book explores the conceptual and contextual found.

When prostitute April Kyle goes missing, her boss Patricia Utley, an elegant madam with a practical heart of gold, turns to Spenser - after all, it''s not the first time he''s had to help the troubled teenager . . . ''A winner'' Chicago Tribune In this exciting follow-up to Ceremony, April''s left the up-market escort service where she''s worked happily since she was 16 for the love of a male pimp, but her boss is afraid the girl will end up at the destructive end of the prostitution industry. It''s not long before Spenser''s hunt leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Julliard student and April''s pimp, then to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux''s hookers - who suddenly turns up dead. ''The suspense never slackens'' Publishers Weekly With April vanished, Rambeaux hiding out after a near-fatal beating, and his only lead dead, Spenser starts tracking back Ginger''s life, hoping it will eventually lead him to April . . . but the surprises aren''t over yet. ''When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he''s an influence, and the rest of us lie about it'' HARLEN COBEN

The Parkers candidly recount the events, pains, and fears attendant upon the discovery of her breast cancer and her subsequent mastectomy and the relief, good humor, and elation that accompanied her recovery

When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise Police Department go on high alert. When Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets.

A part of Dell''s Robert B. Parker reissue program, this newly packaged, thrill-a-minute mystery will keep the adrenaline flowing. Praise for Parker''s popular private eye Spenser: "Tough, wisecracking, unafraid, and unexpectedly literate--in many respects (Spencer''s) the very exemplar of the species".--The New York Times.