Spenser: For Hire

Spenser is the title character in one of the detective series by Robert B. Parker. Spenser, a former heavyweight professional boxer, can look back on a short police career. Since leaving the police service, he made ​​his way as a private investigator in Parker's hometown of Boston. Like his literary predecessor, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer is Spenser a single fighter, can be necessary even with high hardness to enforce. Spenser is - as it is described by Parker - indeed independent. Its autonomy is an addition to the relations with the assassin Hawk, who helps him from time to time, and to his great love, Susan Silverman, the basic literary motif of the series. Spenser's gentler side are his penchant for cooking and beautiful literature.

The portrayal of the relationship between Spenser, Hawk and Silverman is Parker's main concern. Away from moral Floskelhaftigkeit the assassin Hawk Spenser is truly best friend. The absolute, unconditional relationship between the two men is a central motif of the series. About Susan Silverman, Spenser who know the second book in the series and love learned, Parker soon led motifs from psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the series one.

Mid-1980s was the rather successful TV series " Spenser " ( original title: " Spenser: For Hire" ) with Robert Urich in the role of private detective. Urich Spenser embodied in four other Spenser films in the 1990s. On the figure of the Hawk 1988 there was an eponymous spin-off, which came on a season with 13 episodes.

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