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   From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
   > I wonder if HGWT was Robert B. Parker's inspiration for Spenser, his   
   > tough, poetry quoting, gourmet P.I.?   
      
   No it wasn't.  Parker made no secret of the fact that the inspiration for   
   Spenser was Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, another very literate PI -in   
   the books if not in the movies -  As a matter of fact Spenser's first novel   
   _The Godwulf Manuscript_ was practically a re-write of Chandler's _ The Big   
   Sleep _ Parker first wrote it as an University exercise I believe.   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
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