Spenser is...&quot;The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition.&quot; --<i>The Cincinnati Post</i> <br><br>Spenser is...&quot;Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself.&quot; --<i>The Boston Globe</i>