Last week I read Looking for Rachel Wallace, A Catskill Eagle, and Ceremony. I bought six of these at a garage sale last fall. On the same day my mother bought five Parker novels. We traded the ones we hadn’t read and I just got to these and a few others. I’ll read some more of these when I feel like a change.

These tend to be overly violent, but are interesting enough. The characters of Spenser, Hawk and Susan come across as three dimensional, but in these three books, they are not really developed and are like TV characters. The plots are not unique enough to elaborate on and the books are not special enough to review here.

It takes about half the time to read one of these that it would take to read a spec-fic novel of the same length. The writing is at a grade level or two lower than the average golden age novel. These books tend to be formulaic, like a L’Amour Western. Well worth reading on the bus, but soon forgotten as individual novels. I had a good time reading them, but I have started reading a Poul Anderson anthology and it is much more challenging.