![]() #The godwulf manuscript seriesUndeterred by this series of events, Spenser continues his investigation to prove Terry's innocence in the murder of Powell and tie it to the theft of the manuscript. The very next day the manuscript is anonymously returned to the university, just as Broz said it would be. Broz warns Spenser to stop his investigation and hints that the manuscript will be returned if he does. Spenser is escorted by two of Broz's men, Phil (a top hand) and a low-level thug, to meet Joe Broz, a local crime lord, shortly after talking to Hayden. ![]() Spenser leaves the English Department offices and is met by campus security: he has been summarily 'fired' from his job of looking for the manuscript. Hayden denies knowing either Dennis Powell or Terry Orchard, although Spenser believes Hayden does in fact know them. ![]() Ignoring the department head's warning, Spenser sneaks up to Hayden's office and interviews him anyway. Spenser asks permission of the English Department head to interview the members of the faculty, but is rebuffed. Spenser's investigation leads him to Lowell Hayden, an English professor at the university who is reputedly an anonymous member of SCACE. He determines that the murder is an attempt to frame Terry and from that point on he is determined to clear her name, believing the missing manuscript and Dennis's murder are related. 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. #The godwulf manuscript freeIt'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. ![]()
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