Famed Boston mystery writer Robert B. Parker, author of the Spenser series, passed away of heart attack in his home in Cambridge, MA on Monday.
Parker was known for his tough PI Spenser and was the author of over 60 novels inlcuding young adult novels and westerns. Helen Hunt requeted him tte the Sunny Randall series, about the daughter of PI, to make it to a movie. The first one was published in 1999, but no movie has been made yet. Parker is also known for his Jesse Spencer series about a detective in a wealthy Boston suburb, that was turned into a few Tom Selleck TV movies.
His last novel, Split Image, will be a Jessie Stone mystery and will be published next month.
