Bestselling novelist Robert B. Parker, who created the Spenser detective novels that became a television series, has died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his representative said on Tuesday. He was 77.
Parker, who wrote nearly 40 novels featuring the tough Boston private investigator Spenser, died on Monday, said Michael Barson at publisher G.P. Putnam and Sons. The cause of death was unknown. ...
linkI never got into his books in a big way, but I did enjoy the TV adaptations.