‘Spenser’ novelist Robert Parker dies at age 77:
Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series, has died. He was 77.
I’ve savaged his recent books in my book reports, but Parker remained a sort of estranged hero of mine from my boyhood. I’m saddened by his departure, and the world is something less without him in it.
(See my essay “Meeting Robert B. Parker” at bullets-and-beer.com.)
UPDATE: Marko also mourns.
