Parker's ex-boxer-turned-private-eye Spenser, Deadline reports Parker wrote 40 novels starring the Boston-based, poetry-loving, wisecracking sleuth that were then adapted in the 1980s into a television series with Robert Urich and Avery Brooks.
Interestingly, the film would adapt the novel Wonderland, one of eight Spenser novels written by Ace Atkins, who took over the series when Parker died in[...]
