Status Updates From The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5)

Spencer and Susan are visiting London after the enemies are dead. He quotes or paraphrases a line from Richard III, John Gaunts dying words, Oh England, that splendid isle......

It actually took me till this long in the novel before I realized that Catherine was actually the Judas goat. She was the assassin that Spencer spared her life in order that she would rat out to all the other ones

There seems to be a running joke in the series where by Spencer says aha in different situations and even in. book 31 I remember him saying aha and how he hates saying aha. Or how he doesn't think it's fitting for a detective to say that and on and on and on

The Frontier Myth: How European settlers justified conquering the wilderness and Native Americans through violence as a form of moral progress. This is the book that Spencer amuses himself by while staying in a hotel in London. He had down time when he wasn't working on the bombing case. The literary piece was called regeneration through violence by slotkin

Unreachable Relief: Whenever Tantalus bent down to drink the water, it moved away and dried up. Whenever he reached up to grab a piece of fruit, the branches pulled away and rose out of reach.
Spencer mentioned this piece of literature after making a phone call to Susan from Europe 5000 miles away from where she was. He felt like she was close but far away. The word tantalize came from this Greek king.