memorable characters.

Parker died at his writing desk this past Monday. He was 77. He wrote his first Spenser novel, The Godwulf Manuscript, in 1973. The most recent, number 37 in the series, was published in October of 2009. His last will be published later this year. I have been reading him since 1975, the year my son was born. I would rate he and Elmore Leonard as two of the best writers of dialogue in the crime genre...or in any genre. He will be missed. Link is to an email written by author Dennis LeHane (Mystic River, Gone Baby, Gone, Shutter Island)to the San Francisco Chronicle on Parker's passing.