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It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Sue Grafton
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, St. Martin's Paperbacks, Crimeline
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312939038
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- Women detectives
- Detective and mystery stories
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Women private investigators
- Fiction
- Kinsey Millhone (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Millhone, kinsey (fictitious character), fiction
- California, fiction
- Santa teresa (calif. : imaginary place), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
“It was Monday, December 27, and I was sitting in my office, trying to get a fix on the mood I was in, which was bad, bad, bad, comprised of equal parts irritation and uneasiness.”
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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