Hundred-Dollar Baby

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Hundred-dollar Baby
Author	Robert B. Parker
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Spenser
Genre(s)	Detective novel
Publisher	Putnam Adult
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback) and Audio CD
Pages	320 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0399153764 (first edition, hardback)
Preceded by	School Days
Followed by	Now and Then

Hundred-Dollar Baby is the thirty-fourth Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The novel was also alternatively titled, Dream Girl.^{[citation needed]} The story follows Boston-based PI Spenser as he tries to help an old runaway prostitute he helped several years earlier, April Kyle.

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April Kyle appears in Spenser's office after several years without any contact. She's been put in charge of a new upscale brothel by her mentor, the madame Patricia Utley. She says she's being harassed by someone who wants her to pay an extraordinary protection fee. Thugs appear and scare off her customers. Spenser and Hawk manage to fend off the thugs, but things are not as they seem as soon as Spenser starts asking questions. April begs him to stop investigating, but, Spenser being Spenser, can't stop until he unravels the mystery. What surfaces is a web of deceit, greed and the fragile psyche of April Kyle.