D Is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery: 4 (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) - Hardcover

Grafton, Sue; Grafton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805002480 ISBN 13: 9780805002485

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, 1987

Synopsis

The client came to Kinsey Millhone with an easy job -- just deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid. A little odd, and a little too easy, but Kinsey took Alvin Limardo's retainer check anyway. It turned out to be as phony as he was. In real life, his name was John Daggett, a chronic drunk with a record as long as your arm and a reputation for sleazy deals. But he wasn't just a deadbeat. By the time Kinsey caught up with him, he was a dead body -- with a whole host of people who were delighted to hear the news. But how do you make a stiff pay up what he owes you?

"Bright, brisk and thoroughly engaging." -- "The Washington Post."

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Review:

"One of the things that makes Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series so unfailingly entertaining is Millhone's character. She's the last one to cultivate eccentricities in the Nero Wolfe manner, and her unsentimental, loner's-eye view of herself and the world keeps her feet on the ground. But her cases often get messy because she feels things strongly. This happens again, more satisfyingly than ever, in 'D' is for Deadbeat." --The Detroit News

"Kinsey Millhone has the characteristic persistence of the good private eye who won't be deterred from digging out the truth. With skill, Grafton keeps not only her appealing detective but her readers on the edge to know more." --Ms. magazine

"Taut prose and controlled plotting make Grafton an outstanding writer of hardboiled detective stories. Social awareness and human weakness play a great part in the Millhone books, which always manage to finish with a heart-stopping climax. Well done indeed." --Library Journal

Book Description:

The alphabet mysteries continue with another curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0805002480
• ISBN 13: 9780805002485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230