by Robert B. Parker · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582416819
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«A Catskill Eagle» is the crime novel by Robert B. Parker adapted by Robin Waterfield, published by Longman in paperback (43 pages, in English).
Spenser, private investigator, and his friend Hawk search for Susan, the woman Spenser loves, who has run off with Jerry Costigan, son of a powerful and dangerous criminal. The search drags them into a plot of guns and murders, and Spenser will have to decide how far he is willing to break his own rules to free Susan and Hawk.
It belongs to the Penguin Readers series, level 3; it is an edition adapted by Robin Waterfield in British English.
Intended for intermediate-level English students who want to practise reading with an adapted work from the Penguin Readers series.
Robert Brown Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works include the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. In the mid-1980s, based on the character of detective Spenser, ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire. A series of TV movies was also produced based on the same character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited as reviving and changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors, including Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane.
