Looking for Rachel Wallace is the sixth Spenser

Spenser (fictional detective)

Spenser is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins...

 novel by Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker

Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also...

, first published in 1980.

Plot summary

Spenser is hired to protect a lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

, feminist activist, the eponymous Rachel Wallace. After his protecting gets in the way of her protesting, she fires him. Shortly afterwards, she is kidnapped. Though no longer officially employed to protect her, Spenser feels duty-bound to find her.

What transpires is murder, and behind it all a messy web of homophobes who blame Wallace for, among other things, turning their daughter (and sister) into a lesbian, and one of Wallace's lovers. Spenser rescues Wallace where she is being held, in a cramped attic room in her kidnapper's home.

Characters

• Spenser
  Spenser (fictional detective)
  Spenser is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins...
  
  : Boston private investigator
• Rachael Wallace
• Susan Silverman

External links

• Page on the book at Parker's official site