Description
Product ID: | 9781447212249 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series |
Title: | D is for Deadbeat |
Authors: | Author: Sue Grafton |
Page Count: | 336 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery, California, c 1980 to c 1990 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The alphabet mysteries continue with another curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone. <p><b><i>D is for Deadbeat</i> is the fourth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.</b><br><br><i>My name is Kinsey Millhone. I’m a private investigator . . . female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I’m a purist when it comes to justice, but I’ll lie at the drop of a hat. Inconsistency has never troubled me . . .</i><br><br> It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed easy enough . . . until his cheque bounced. His real name was Dagett. John Dagett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead.<br><br> The cops called it an accident – death by drowning. Kinsey wasn’t so sure. The man, it seemed, had a lot of enemies . . .</p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-05-24 |