Title: when you can't do it well, do it again
Product review: Someone must say it. Spenser is cold toast. And it should not be a great surprise. It's nearly impossible (even Doyle's pen nodded) to sustain a series character beyond 10 -12 books, and Parker began to rehash plots that long ago. This book is notable only for the aspects recently become common: large type, small pages; interludes of romance with dear Susan; sub-plots with no relation to the main plot (here, the nanny and the wicked mother/lawyer); Spenser's smart-aleck dialogue, even with friends; and a thin, thin plot,whose resolution brings not a single surprise. Parker's other recent books without Spenser have had, despite the poverty of plot, at least the freshness of new character. Here, even Pearl the WonderDog gets scant attention--though maybe that's a good thing after all. The book is enough of a dog as it is
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