A 1982 crime thriller just landed at No. 1 on a best-selling author’s list.

Published in 1982, Ceremony is the ninth installment in Parker's Spenser series. The story follows the private investigator after a couple hires him to find their missing 16-year-old daughter, April ...

Ted gives an overview of Parker's writing, focusing on the Spenser character from books and TV. Robert B. Parker created the characters of Spenser and Jesse Stone, as well as many others. His mystery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Christopher Farnsworth says it seemed like just another email from his agent. But then Farnsworth, the author of thrillers such as “The President’s Vampire” and “Killfile,” opened it, and everything ...

The private-eye novel is the quintessential form of the American mystery story, and for the past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre’s ...

A crime novel published more than four decades ago is getting fresh attention thanks to one of today’s best-selling thriller writers. Robert B. Parker’s Ceremony, the ninth book in his long-running ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Robert B. Parker is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per program ...