D Is For Deadbeat
'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator...female, single and self-employed...' It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo, which wasn't his real name. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed simple enough...until his cheque bounced. By...
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'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator...female, single and self-employed...'
It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo, which wasn't his real name.
The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed simple enough...until his cheque bounced.
By the time she caught up with him he was dead and Kinsey collected far more than she bargained for...
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Pan Books
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
Series: Kinsey Millhone (#4)
There is something immensely likeable about Kensey Millhone and Grafton's series so far. Swiftly-moving and well-plotted, the books are a quick, fun read. We finally get a resolution that doesn't involve Kinsey in mortal peril, which was a nice change. My update mentioned that this victim had a l...
I thought this one was bit more complicated than it needed to be. Even re-reading this year's later, a lot doesn't gel together very well. We do get more information on Kinsey and others. I just think it was too rushed as a whole to be really enjoyable. The fourth novel finds Kinsey in a quandry. ...
15/1 - Finally, a mystery that doesn't end with Kinsey being seriously injured by the bad guy. I don't know how she could physically survive the injuries she sustained in B is for Burglar (injuries which required some time in hospital and weeks/months of physical therapy), and still be recovering w...
Again, Sue Grafton has written a completely different type book from the 3 that precede it in the series. She always manages to come up with something new for Kinsey Millhone. The only flaw I find in the books is that Kinsey, at times, seems so patronizing about the normal things that regular people...
This is the fourth installment of the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton. Though I enjoyed the book, but I won’t say that I was satisfied with it.Firstly, the concept, that a P.I. would search heaven and earth, to find a bum who issued her a cheque which bounced, is not palatable for me. I mean, ...
11 years ago
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