An Analysis of Robert B. Parker’s Hush Money

By Brett R.

In Hush Money Robert B. Parkers Excels By describing The Lust, Masculinity and Sensitivity. By Parkers Dialogue driven style Parkers puts the reader in the character's shoes. Throughout the story parker makes readers wanting to turn the page by his wild characterizations and his descriptions.

Hush Money is the story of the Boston Private Investigator and his feared Partner Hawk, against local high ranking associates. When Robinson Nevins, the son of Hawk's childhood mentor is denied at his favorite University, Hawk and Spencer begin to investigate. Not on the denial itself but the denial is tied to the suicide of a young gay activist, Prentice Lamont. While clues of an affair between Lamont and Nevins have been known through campus wide gossip. Throughout the investigation he find himself having to communicate with a very diverse or multicultural group of people such as blacks, gays , nerds, and feminist.

The major themes of the book appear from Spenser's investigation of the injustice of the English Department's decision to not alllow Robinson Nevins to be accepted into the University. One major theme of the novel is widespread social hypocrisy. Spenser's investigation reveals that Nevins was the victim of political enmity within the Department and that the votes of many department members were influenced by rumors of scandal. Throughout the investigation Spencer has to communicate with other cultures and races witch will conflict with the investigation.

Overall Hush Money  By Robert B. Parker was a great book, it was very easy to understand by Robert B. Parkers style of monologging the conversation between characters throughout the book.