title: Paper Doll (novel)
text: # Paper Doll (novel)
  
  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 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
  