C is for Corpse: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery by Grafton, Sue published by Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Hardcover - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0030018889 ISBN 13: 9780030018886

Verlag: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1986

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SIGNED SCARCE AS NEW FIRST EDITION First Printing dust jacket hardcover, with complete number line intact; in protective plastic; jacket is NOT price clipped (FPT $14.95); free tracking number, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. 201812838 (See also our COLLECTIBLE offerings of Sue Grafton's A, C, D, and J.) SIGNED "For Janet ... yours til the end of crime Sue 5-14-88" Third in Grafton s Kinsey Millhone series of detective novels, and possibly the scarcest. Third in Grafton's dashing trip through the alphabet ("A" is for Alibi, etc.) and probably her best so far. Gutsy, smart, twice-divorced private eye Kinsey Millhone has been hired by super-rich young Bobby Callahan to find out who almost killed him months before in a car crash that his best friend, Rick Bergen, didn't survive. Kinsey starts with Bobby's mixed-up family — cool, deeply devoted mother Glen, not-too-bright stepfather Derek, whose adolescent daughter Kitty is starving and drugging herself to death. Then, there are family friends — pathologist James Fraker and gorgeous wife Nola, surgical nurse Sufi Daniels and Kitty's psychiatrist, Leo Kleinert. Kinsey hasn't a glimmer of light through all this and more when Bobby dies in another car crash. Intensifying efforts to find the killer while managing to rescue her lovable old landlord Henry from the clutches of a seductive lady crook, Kinsey then puts the complex bits and pieces together at las -- finishing up with a tense, near-fatal confrontation with the murderer. The author's style is warm and swift, the plot intrigues even if far-fetched; best of all is Kinsey Millhone—who's got brains and a sense of humor. Carefully packed and quickly sent. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Italy.)

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The corpse in private eye Kinsey Millhone's third adventure ("A" Is for Alibi and "B" Is for Burglar is that of Bobby Callahan, a young man she first meets while both are working out in a local gym. Bobby is convinced the car crash he'd been injured in was really an attempt on his life and, fearful of another assault, persuades Kinsey to investigate. A few days later, Bobby is indeed killed, and Kinsey stays on the case. She is befriended by Bobby's wealthy mother, his opportunistic stepfather and druggie, anoretic stepsister. She learns Bobby was having an affair with a friend of his mother's whose first husband had been killed in a suspicious burglary, and whose second is county pathologist. While the almost hard-boiled Kinsey ferrets out the ugly secrets behind Bobby's death, she's also trying to save her elderly landlord from the schemes of the scam-operating senior lady he's smitten with. Kinsey Millhone is nobody's fool; she's also sensitive, funny and very likable. Writing with a light, sure touch, Grafton has produced a fast-moving California story about quirky, believable people.
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• Verlag: Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0030018889
• ISBN 13: 9780030018886
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