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Description edit
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with... read more
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Characters edit
- Kevin Bartlett: Fourteen-year-old who disappears
- Spenser: Private Investigator
- Vic Harroway: body builder
- Dolly Bartlett: Sister of Kevin Bartlett (the 14 year old that disappears)
- Dr. Susan Silverman: Spenser's long time girlfriend. She is a psychologist and his sounding board.
Setting & Locations edit
- Appie Knoll: the kind of suburb where kids grow up right
First Sentence edit
If you leaned way back in the chair and cranked your neck hard over, you could see the sky from my office window, delft-blue and cloudless and so bright it looked solid.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 40 in The Spenser Novels. (standard series)
Preceded by The Godwulf Manuscript, and followed by Mortal Stakes.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert B. Parker (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: US
Publication Date: 1974
ISBN: 0395199557
Page Count: 185
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: US
Publication Date: 1974
ISBN: 0395199557
Page Count: 185
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Robert B. Parker: Author's website
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