D Is for Deadbeat

Zusatztext Heart-pounding, totally mesmerizing suspense. Informationen zum Autor Sue Grafton was one of the most popular female writers, both in the UK and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the 'alphabet' series took off. Two of the novels B is for Burglar and C is for Corpse won the first Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Sue lived and wrote in Montecito, California and Louisville, Kentucky. Klappentext D is for Deadbeat is the fourth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. 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 . . . 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. The cops called it an accident - death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. The man, it seemed, had a lot of enemies . . . The alphabet mysteries continue with another curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Zusammenfassung The alphabet mysteries continue with another curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Grafton, Grafton Sue
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9781447212249
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-1224-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Pan Books; Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series; Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, California, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989