Early Autumn (Robert B. Parker novel)
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Early Autumn is a Spenser novel
by Robert B. Parker
. Spenser is hired to protect a boy, Paul Giacomin, from being kidnapped in a custody quarrel. He ends up taking care of the boy, who is socially immature, having been ignored by his parents, only used as a pawn in their quarrelling. Spenser takes him in and helps him mature through learning to box
, exercising, weight-lifting and building a cottage. At the same time, with the help of Hawk, he collects enough information about the parents that they leave the boy alone and let Spenser unofficially adopt him.
Literary Allusions
"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary." p.19
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Series
"Join a gang of pickpockets and live in the slums of London?" p. 25 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Make a raft and float down the Mississippi?" p.26
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Paul Giacomin goes on to appear in several later Spenser novels, usually as a minor character.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker
Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also...
. Spenser is hired to protect a boy, Paul Giacomin, from being kidnapped in a custody quarrel. He ends up taking care of the boy, who is socially immature, having been ignored by his parents, only used as a pawn in their quarrelling. Spenser takes him in and helps him mature through learning to box
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
, exercising, weight-lifting and building a cottage. At the same time, with the help of Hawk, he collects enough information about the parents that they leave the boy alone and let Spenser unofficially adopt him.
Literary Allusions
"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary." p.19
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Series
"Join a gang of pickpockets and live in the slums of London?" p. 25 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...
"Make a raft and float down the Mississippi?" p.26
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Paul Giacomin goes on to appear in several later Spenser novels, usually as a minor character.