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005			20231009193135.0
008			120515s1995 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a94039046
020			_a9780399140204
050	0	0	_aPS3566.A686 _bT47 1995
082	0	0	_aMYS PAR
100	1		_aParker, Robert B. _d(, 1932-2010)
245	1	0	_aThin air _c/ Robert B. Parker
260			_aNew York _b: Putnam's Sons _c, c1995.
300			_a293 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aIn 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?
650		0	_aSpenser (Fictitious character)
650			_aPrivate investigators _z-Massachusetts _z-Boston _v--Fiction
651			_aBoston (Mass.) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aDetective and mystery stories
942			_cMO
999			_c261848 _d261848