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大学の図書館で厳重に保管されていた中世の稀覯書〈ゴッドウルフ彩飾写本〉が何者かに盗まれた。総長の依頼で調査を開始したスペンサーは、容疑がかかっている学内の過激派組織SCACEの書記をつとめる女子学生テリイと接触する。その深夜、彼女からの電話で駆けつけたスペンサーが見たものは、射殺死体の傍に呆然と立ちつくすテリイの姿だった!テリイを殺人容疑から救おうと奔走するスペンサー。が、事件の裏には意外な陰謀が…。話題のヒーローのデビュー作。
Book Description
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead.
"Spenser is Boston's answer to James Bond -- irreverent, witty, worldy. His first-person recital of his detective work makes for fast, amusing reading." (The Pittsburgh Press)
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