- Title: Spenser: For Hire – Angel of Desolation
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. “Angel of Desolation” follows a formula found in Robert B. Parker’s original novels with Spenser (Robert Urich) being fired from a job before it is complete but deciding to continue to work under the mystery is solved. His client in “Angel of Desolation” is a popular model (Shelly Burch) married into old Boston money. Although she’s obviously frightened of something (even more than the drive by attack Spenser prevents), our intrepid investigator is let go by the family.
After her husband is killed, Spenser returns to the case which involves digging deeper into his client’s past and understanding the reasons for her secrecy and unexpected racial motives for someone to target her. There’s a bit too much plot for the time permitted with some of the various avenues to the case being truncated (especially in terms of the links to organized crime), but in the end Spenser is able to figure out who is responsible for the murder, the various motives of all involved, what his client has been hiding, and save her from living in fear.
