P is for Peril

Zusatztext Grafton is a delight to read, her books being highly literature, with believable plots and three-dimensionally drawn characters. 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 In 1982, with the publication of A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton introduced us to private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Now, over thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a bestselling author. Over the course of Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series – known as such for the letter-themed titles – readers have fallen for the novels’ singular detective. Driving a decrepit Volkswagen, cutting her own hair and living in what is ostensibly a garage, Kinsey has won over readers with her ingenuity, wit and dogged dedication to her cases. Grafton intends for Kinsey to keep solving crimes on the Californian streets all the way up to Z . "Grafton has moved the private-eye story closer to real life than did either Hammett or Chandler." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review" The alphabet mysteries continue with an curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Zusammenfassung The alphabet mysteries continue with an 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: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9781447212379
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-1237-9
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series; Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, California, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Crime and mystery fiction, C 1980 To C 1990