The Private-Eye Novel Is the quintessential form of the American mystery story, and for the past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre's lineage of hard-boiled icons, the baton passed from Dashiell Ham-mett to Raymond Chandler tornRoss Macdonald and finally to Parker, whose mononymous detective, Spenser, long ago entered the pantheon inhabited by Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer. Although Parker's body of work included books featuring other protagonists, it is Spenser who will endure and whose adventures will be read in the next century.
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机译：私人眼小说是美国神秘故事的典型形式，在过去的36年中，其最伟大的创作者是罗伯特·帕克（Robert B. Parker），他于1月18日去世，享年77岁。指挥棒从达希尔（Dashiell Ham-mett）传递到雷蒙德·钱德勒（Raymond Chandler）撕裂罗斯·麦克唐纳（Ross Macdonald），最后传到帕克（Parker），他的同名侦探斯宾塞（Spencer）很久以前就进入了由Sam Spade，Philip Marlowe和Lew Archer居住的万神殿。尽管帕克的著作中包括其他主角的著作，但斯彭塞（Spenser）会忍受，并且他的冒险经历将在下个世纪被宣读。
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