Taming a Sea-Horse

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Taming a Sea-Horse is the 13th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker.

The title is from the Robert Browning poem "My Last Duchess." The book's epigraph is of the poem's closing lines: "Nay, we'll go / Together down, sir: / Notice Neptune, though, /Taming a sea-horse thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"

The story follows Boston based PI Spenser as he searches for April Kyle, the prostitute he met in events described in the earlier novel Ceremony. Kyle's story continues in Hundred-Dollar Baby.

Recurring characters

  • Spenser
  • Hawk
  • Patricia Utley
  • Dr. Susan Silverman, Ph.D
  • April Kyle
  • Frank Belson
  • Tony Marcus

External links

  • Parker's page on the book
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Novels by Robert B. Parker
Spenser novels
Novels
  • The Godwulf Manuscript (1973)
  • God Save the Child (1974)
  • Mortal Stakes (1975)
  • Promised Land (1976)
  • The Judas Goat (1978)
  • Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980)
  • Early Autumn (1981)
  • A Savage Place (1981)
  • Ceremony (1982)
  • The Widening Gyre (1983)
  • Valediction (1984)
  • A Catskill Eagle (1985)
  • Taming a Sea-Horse (1986)
  • Pale Kings and Princes (1987)
  • Crimson Joy (1988)
  • Playmates (1989)
  • Stardust (1990)
  • Pastime (1991)
  • Double Deuce (1992)
  • Paper Doll (1993)
  • Walking Shadow (1994)
  • Thin Air (1995)
  • Chance (1996)
  • Small Vices (1997)
  • Sudden Mischief (1998)
  • Hush Money (1999)
  • Hugger Mugger (2000)
  • Potshot (2001)
  • Widow's Walk (2002)
  • Back Story (2003)
  • Bad Business (2004)
  • Cold Service (2005)
  • School Days (2005)
  • Hundred-Dollar Baby (2006)
  • Now and Then (2006)
  • Rough Weather (2008)
  • Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel (2009)
  • The Professional (2009)
  • Painted Ladies (2010)
  • Sixkill (2011)
Adaptations
Jesse Stone novels
  • Night Passage (1997)
  • Trouble in Paradise (1998)
  • Death in Paradise (2001)
  • Stone Cold (2003)
  • Sea Change (2006)
  • High Profile (2007)
  • Stranger in Paradise (2008)
  • Night and Day (2009)
  • Split Image (2010)
Other
  • Wilderness (1979)
  • Love and Glory (1983)
  • Poodle Springs (1989)
  • Stardust (1990)
  • Perchance to Dream (1991)
  • All Our Yesterdays (1994)
  • Family Honor (1999)
  • Perish Twice (2000)
  • Gunman's Rhapsody (2001)
  • Shrink Rap (2002)
  • Melancholy Baby (2004)
  • Double Play (2004)
  • Appaloosa (2005)
  • Blue Screen (2006)
  • Spare Change (2007)
  • Now and Then (2007)
  • Edenville Owls (2007)
  • The Boxer and the Spy (2008)
  • Resolution (2008)
  • Brimstone (2009)
  • Blue-Eyed Devil (2010)
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