Paper Doll (novel)

For the 2025 memoir by Dylan Mulvaney, see Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer.

Paper Doll

First edition
Author	Robert B. Parker
Language	English
Series	Spenser
Genre	Detective fiction
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	1993
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	223 pp
ISBN	0-399-13818-8
OCLC	26635630
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3566.A686 P33 1993
Preceded by	Double Deuce
Followed by	Walking Shadow

Paper Doll is the 20th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The story follows the Boston-based PI Spenser as he tries to solve the apparently random killing of the well-regarded wife of a local businessman.

Plot

The novel's hero is Spenser, a private investigator in Boston. Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War ^[1] and as a former State trooper, is hired by Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers upper-class scandals and a corpse who might not be dead after all.

Recurring characters

• Spenser
• Hawk
• Dr. Susan Silverman, Ph.D.
• Lt. Martin Quirk, Boston Police Department
• Sgt. Frank Belson, Boston Police Department
• Detective Lee Farrell
• Wayne Cosgrove
• Henry Cimoli

Mentioned but not seen

• Paul Giacomin
• Vinnie Morris

References

1. Robert B. Parker, Paper Doll, G.P. Putnam & Son, 1993, page 1: "You fought in Korea. Were you an officer?".