Born: 17 September 1932, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 18 January 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Biography
Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist, best known for creating the Boston private detective Spenser and for his long-running series of detective fiction.
Robert B. Parker
The Judas Goat
André Deutsch. 1982.
Meet me at the cafeteria end of the east tunnel near the north gate entrance to the London Zoo in Regent's Park
The detailed instructions in the note are for the American private eye on his first visit to England. He reconnoitres the meeting place beforehand, but realizing it's a trap keeps out of sight when the girl - the 'Judas goat' - arrives. An assassination attempt at his hotel, followed by a horrible steak and kidney pie ('like a bowling ball in my stomach') at the aforementioned cafeteria, can't have made him keen to revisit London.