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    Review: Netflix thriller 'Spenser Confidential' brings Mark Wahlberg back home to Boston

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Mar 06, 2020 3 minutes

    If the name Spenser, the titular character in "Spenser Confidential," sounds familiar, there is a reason.

    Introduced in Robert B. Parker's 1973 "The Godwulf Manuscript," Boston private investigator Spenser (no first name, though friends have been known to call him Spence) has enjoyed remarkable longevity, with Parker turning out some 40 novels before his death in 2010 and Ace Atkins continuing the string with eight others so far.

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