- Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Women detectives
Bailey Fowler, a long-time fugitive convicted of the murder of seventeen-year-old Jean Timberlake, has been captured. When his terminally-ill father asks P.I. Kinsey Millhone to prove Bailey's innocence, Kinsey heads to Floral Beach, California.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Sue Grafton
- First published
- April 1, 1990
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- H. Holt, William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, Macmillan Audio Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- und, German, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780708924280
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- Private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Women detectives
- Women private investigators
- Fiction
- Kinsey Millhone (Fictitious character)
- Millhone, kinsey (fictitious character), fiction
- California, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Santa teresa (calif. : imaginary place), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
“The Ocean Street Motel in Floral Beach, California, is located, oddly enough, on Ocean Street, a stone's throw from the sea wall that slants ten feet down toward the Pacific.”
New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton is published in twenty-eight countries and twenty-six languages--including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. Books in her alphabet series, begun in 1982, are international bestsellers with readership in the millions. And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Grafton has earned new respect for the mystery form. Readers appreciate her buoyant style, her eye for detail, her deft hand with character, her acute social observances, and her abundant storytelling prowess. She has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America (2009) and is a recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award (2004). Sue Grafton has been married to Steve H
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