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Click to view full description | 1. | Grafton, Sue "B" is for burglar (A Kinsey Millhone mystery)
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1985 Hardcover used: excellent condition
A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine ... boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bil ls to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call Kinsey off, an accusing husband surfaces and a double murder turns the case sinister. Kinsey feels adrift in a fog of distortion, where nothing -- except danger -- is quite what it seems.
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| 2. | Grafton, Sue "L" is for Lawless
Henry Holt Hardcover; w/j hardcover w/dustjacket; good
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| 3. | Grafton, Sue "L" is for Lawless
Henry Holt and Co. September 15, 1 Hardcover; w/j Hardcover; good
HAS SOME FAINT SCRIBBLE ON INSIDE PAGE, OTHERWISE GOOD CONDITION Both new readers and old fans will welcome this 12th Kinsey Milhone adventu re in the "A" is for Alibi series by Sue Grafton. In this case, Kinsey agre es to do a favor for a friend of a friend and gets herself into so much tro uble that she promises at the outset never to do such a thing again without careful consideration. Henry Pitt, her longtime landlord asks her to help a fellow neighbor find evidence that his grandfather served in the military during the Second World War. With such proof, the man can be decently buried, courtesy of the U.S. government. It seems such a simple thing, but with Kinsey, it rarely is. Before long she finds herself entangled with an eccentric and quarrelsome family as well as a long lost buddy who has turned up just in time to get himself beaten up in a robbery attempt of the alleged veteran's apartment. It seems there is a reason the Armed Services have no record of the dead man's service. Kinsey sets out to determine what he might have been doing instead of fighting against the Japanese and why someone might think his shabby apartment worth a burgle.
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| 4. | Grafton, Sue "N" Is For Noose (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
Henry Holt and Co. May 15, 1998 Hardcover; w/j used; both book/jacket very good
"Suppose we could peer through a tiny peephole in time and chance upon a fl ash of what was coming up in the years ahead?" The questioner is Kinsey Mil lhone, middle-aged, two-time divorcee detective and junk food junkie star o f Sue Grafton's popular "alphabet" mysteries; the book is 'N' Is for Noose. If Kinsey had had just a smidgen of foresight, she would never have taken her current case, handed down to her from her on-again, off-again flame and comrade in arms, Robert Dietz. We encounter the two this time out after De itz's knee surgery, as Kinsey drives his "snazzy little red Porsche" back t o Carson City, where she checks out his digs for the first time. To her sur prise, he lives in a palatial penthouse, which--under the unspoken bylaws o f investigative etiquette--she qualmlessly snoops through. They sit around for a fortnight playing gin rummy and eating peanut butter and pickle sandw iches together, but perennially single Kinsey grows wary: "It was time to h it the road before our togetherness began to chafe."
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| 5. | Grafton, Sue "O" Is for Outlaw
Henry Holt and Co. October, 1999 Hardcover; w/j Hardcover; excellent
Amazon.com Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton's gr itty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star w ill take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random ph one call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she find s a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, re veals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains detai ls about the murder of a transient--a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Al though never convicted, Mickey was ruined--losing his job, wife, and friend s. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involve d in the murder, a deadly temptation for her. Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey's self-disclosure--something she 's infamous for not doing--about her childhood, the fate of her parents, an d the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interestin g side to Kinsey's character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart. A fast, fun read, O Is for Outlaw is packed with Grafton's clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simpl y distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by th ose forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dar k, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what 's concealed." --Rebekah Warren
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| 6. | Grafton, Sue A Is for Alibi
Crimeline July 1, 1987 Paperback used; very good
"Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, c lear-headed and unsentimental."
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| 7. | Grafton, Sue B Is for Burglar
Crimeline October 1, 1986 Mass Market Pa used: good
Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But somewhere in betwee n, she vanished. Kinsey's case goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is torched, an apartment is burgled of worthless papers, the lynx coat c omes back without Elaine, and her bridge partner is found dead. Soon Kinse y's clues begin to form a capital M -- not for missing, but for murder: a nd plenty of it.
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| 8. | Grafton, Sue C Is for Corpse
Crimeline April 1, 1987 Mass Market Pa used: good
Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man st ruggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a can yon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that s omeone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his o wn past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him . Kinsey can't resist the brave kid - and neither can the killers. Three da ys late Bobby is dead. Kinsey Millhone never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.
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| 9. | Grafton, Sue D Is for Deadbeat
Bantam June 1, 1988 Paperback used: good
"D" is for Detective Kinsey Millhone, given $25,000 of stolen drug money by a drunkard named Daggett who then dies in a drowning. When she decides to deliver the money to Daggett's designee, a young man who was the sole survi vor of an auto accident perpetrated by Daggett, Kinsey finds herself in a d ilemma: too many "D's" are after the loot. There are two Mrs. Daggetts, a d aughter, the drug dealers and a determined killer who soon claims a second life. At this point, Grafton's lively, well-written adventure develops a de adly flaw. Kinsey comes upon the second victim shortly after he's been shot . Though dying, he is conscious and coherent. Why, then, doesn't she ask wh o did it? When asked the same thing by the police, she says, "I didn't want the last minutes of his life taken up with that stuff"a humane but unlikel y rejoiner from any private eye. Even so, the pleasure of this story comes through.
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| 10. | Grafton, Sue J Is for Judgment
Fawcett April 2, 1994 Paperback used: very good
In her 10th alphabet adventure, southern California PI Kinsey Milhone is wo rking again for California Fidelity, navigating her way through a plot-driv en tale that will remind readers of her earliest appearances, despite Graft on's deft introduction of new material. Shady financier Wendell Jaffe has r ecently been decreed dead, five years after his real estate empire collapse d and he disappeared from his beloved 35-foot ketch off the coast, an appar ent suicide. California Fidelity has just paid his widow $500,000. But then Jaffe is spotted in Mexico with another woman. Kinsey's investigation land s her in some tough spots--such as a drunken stranger's hotel room where sh e pretends to be a hooker--gets her shot at and leads to a dramatic resolut ion at sea.
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| 11. | Grafton, Sue J is for Judgment
Henry Holt and Co. May 15, 1993 Hardcover; w/j Hardcover; excellent
In her 10th alphabet adventure, southern California PI Kinsey Milhone is wo rking again for California Fidelity, navigating her way through a plot-driv en tale that will remind readers of her earliest appearances, despite Graft on's deft introduction of new material. Shady financier Wendell Jaffe has r ecently been decreed dead, five years after his real estate empire collapse d and he disappeared from his beloved 35-foot ketch off the coast, an appar ent suicide. California Fidelity has just paid his widow $500,000. But then Jaffe is spotted in Mexico with another woman.
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| 12. | Grafton, Sue K Is for Killer
Fawcett April 1, 1995 Paperback used: very good
Kinsey Millhone Mysteries The 11th adventure of Santa Teresa, Calif., PI Kinsey Milhone has a dark tone--due in great part to Kinsey's working this case mostly at night. Kinsey agrees to look into the 10-month-old death of Lorna Kepler, a young woman whose decomposed body was discovered in her cabin so long after death that it was impossible to determine the cause. Kinsey's client, Lorna's mother, who works the night shift in a 24-hour diner, suspects murder. So does Kinsey, especially after investigating Lorna's effects and her considerable assets, some unaccounted-for. An anonymously delivered pornographic tape adds to the emerging portrait of the dead woman as an intriguingly self-sufficient, ambitious woman of the evening. In nighttime forays, Kinsey talks to an all-night deejay whom Lorna often visited at his studio; she meets--and befriends--a prostitute who occasionally teamed up with Lorna to party with clients. She also investigates the victim's day job as a part-time receptionist for the water district, where a high-stakes development project is currently raising tempers. A host of suspects includes a porn filmmaker in San Francisco, members of Lorna's family, her landlord, the water district employees and even a smooth-dressing cop, whom Kinsey talks to at night. But lack of sleep dulls Kinsey's perceptions and it takes two more deaths and the surprise appearance of a deus ex limousine to lead her to a solution. Even sleep-deprived, Kinsey shows spunk and appeal, but she is not at her sharpest here.
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| 13. | Grafton, Sue K is for Killer
Random House Audio April 19, 1994 Audio Cassette good
2 cassettes The 11th adventure of Santa Teresa, Calif., PI Kinsey Milhone has a dark tone--due in great part to Kinsey's working this case mostly at night. Kinsey agrees to look into the 10-month-old death of Lorna Kepler, a young woman whose decomposed body was discovered in her cabin so long after death that it was impossible to determine the cause. Kinsey's client, Lorna's mother, who works the night shift in a 24-hour diner, suspects murder. So does Kinsey, especially after investigating Lorna's effects and her considerable assets, some unaccounted-for. An anonymously delivered pornographic tape adds to the emerging portrait of the dead woman as an intriguingly self-sufficient, ambitious woman of the evening. In nighttime forays, Kinsey talks to an all-night deejay whom Lorna often visited at his studio; she meets--and befriends--a prostitute who occasionally teamed up with Lorna to party with clients. She also investigates the victim's day job as a part-time receptionist for the water district, where a high-stakes development project is currently raising tempers. A host of suspects includes a porn filmmaker in San Francisco, members of Lorna's family, her landlord, the water district employees and even a smooth-dressing cop, whom Kinsey talks to at night. But lack of sleep dulls Kinsey's perceptions and it takes two more deaths and the surprise appearance of a deus ex limousine to lead her to a solution. Even sleep-deprived, Kinsey shows spunk and appeal, but she is not at her sharpest here.
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| 14. | Grafton, Sue P Is for Peril
Putnam Publishing Group June 1, 2001 Hardcover Hardcover; excellent
When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disa ppears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dow's affair and subsequent marriage t o Crystal, a former stripper, yet they're still friends, and she seems worr ied. But when his body is discovered, she's among the suspects. Both of Dow 's wives, at least one of his business partners, and perhaps even Crystal's teenage daughter had motives to kill.
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| 15. | Grafton, Sue Q Is for Quarry
Putnam Publishing Group October 1, 2002 Hardcover; w/j Hardcover; excellent
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the ca se here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to brea the some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for differe nt reasons. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young wo man who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neit her they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the kille r to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the stil l-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues t o languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office
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| 16. | Grafton, Sue R Is For Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
Berkley March 29, 2005 Paperback used: very good
Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileg ed parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assign ment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.
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