Parker, Robert B.  (, 1932-2010) <br/><br/>
Thin air 
/ Robert B. Parker 
 - New York  : Putnam's Sons  , c1995. 
 - 293 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> In the famed Boston PI's 22nd case, an oddly sympathetic villain and a resolute heroine draw Spenser into a barrio enclave in a depressed Massachusetts factory town. Readers know that Lisa St. Clair, a radio deejay newly married to a Boston police detective, has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a Proctor, Mass. tenement by Rico, her former lover. The cop, who knows only that his wife has disappeared, is shot and seriously injured just after he asks Spenser to investigate. Chapters alternate between the room where Lisa is kept under guard and constantly running video cameras and Spenser's gradual assembling of clues. The PI discovers Lisa's former name and occupation; he thinks up a way to penetrate Proctor's divided and desperate Hispanic community, ruled by Rico and a rival. Lots of atmosphere and even suspense? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780399140204 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94039046 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spenser (Fictitious character)<br/>Private investigators---Massachusetts---Boston----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Boston (Mass.)----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3566.A686  / T47 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>MYS PAR