Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series, died Monday in Cambridge, Mass. He was ...
Robert B. Parker, whose best-selling series about a Boston detective spawned the TV show "Spenser: For Hire," died at the desk in his Massachusetts home at 77. A spokeswoman for the Cambridge police ...