![]() ![]() Spenser arrives at her apartment to find Dennis murdered, the killer having used Terry's gun, and Terry had been overdosed on an unknown drug. Later that night, Spenser receives a call from Terry requesting help. After talking to Terry and her boyfriend Dennis Powell, Spenser gets into a minor altercation with Powell. Head of campus security Carl Tower recommends investigating a radical student group called 'SCACE' (Student Committee Against Capitalist Exploitation) and their secretary, Terry Orchard. It has no inherent monetary value since it cannot be fenced, and the university - a poor, inner-city school (much as Northeastern was at the time) - cannot afford the ransom. It's being held for ransom by an unknown perpetrator who demands $100,000 be donated to a free school for the manuscript's return. ![]() ![]() Forbes, the president of an unnamed university (heavily implied to be Northeastern, the university at which Parker himself taught at the time) to recover a stolen illuminated manuscript, a medieval book of great historical and literary importance. Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War and as a former State trooper, is hired by Bradford W. Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to Spenser, a private investigator in Boston. ![]() The Godwulf Manuscript is the debut crime novel by American writer Robert B. ![]()
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