Taming a Sea-Horse is the 13th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker.

Taming a Sea-Horse
First edition
AuthorRobert B. Parker
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSpenser
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherDelacorte Press
Publication date
1986
Publication placeUnited States
Pages320
ISBN0-385-29461-1
Preceded byA Catskill Eagle 
Followed byPale Kings and Princes 

The title is from the Robert Browning poem "My Last Duchess." The book's epigraph is of the poem's closing lines: "Nay, we'll go / Together down, sir: / Notice Neptune, though, /Taming a sea-horse thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"

The story follows Boston based PI Spenser as he searches for April Kyle, the prostitute he met in events described in the earlier novel Ceremony. Kyle's story continues in Hundred-Dollar Baby.

Recurring characters

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  • Spenser
  • Hawk
  • Patricia Utley
  • Dr. Susan Silverman, Ph.D
  • April Kyle
  • Frank Belson
  • Tony Marcus
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