The trail of a missing girl leads private eye Spenser into an underworld of vice and violence peopled by pornographers and pimps - the cigarette butts of mankind. And Spenser tackles each hurdle with the laconic, sharp-eyed coolness.
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering. Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life.
Doctor Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag (BBC Radio Collection)
A dramatisation of the stories by A J Cronin - six episodes:
1. "The Resolution that went Wrong" 2. "Who Laughs Last" 3. "The Day Dandini Came to Town" 4. "Wee Robertson" 5. "The Wife of a Hero" 6. "The Sisters Scobie"
She stood in Spenser's office, asking him to spring her 15-year-old son from the hoods her ex-husband had hired. So Spenser spirits the boy to the backwoods of Maine to teach him the art of survival, as learned in Boston's backstreets and Korea.
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself." -The Boston Globe
