Hugger mugger: Spenser is approached by the president of Three Fillies Stables to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger. Potshot: Spenser heads west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, where a local gang threatens the town.

THe Godwulf manuscript. For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. The first book in the Spenser series. God save the child. Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old...