D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)

About this book

*"My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator... Female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when it comes to justice, but I'll lie at the drop of a hat. Inconsistency has never troubled me..."*

It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed easy enough... until his cheque bounced.

His real name was Dagett. John Dagett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead.

The cops called it an accident – death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. The man, it seemed, had a lot of enemies...

1. 3 "C" Is for Corpse 1986
2. 4 "D" Is for Deadbeat 1987 This book
3. 5 "E" Is for Evidence 1988
4. 6 "F" Is for Fugitive 1989

Subjects

• california, fiction
• detective and mystery stories
• fiction
• fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
• impostors and imposture
• kinsey millhone (fictional character)
• kinsey millhone (fictitious character)
• large type books
• millhone, kinsey (fictitious character), fiction
• mystery & detective
• mystery fiction
• private investigators
• private investigators, fiction
• santa teresa (calif. : imaginary place), fiction
• women detectives
• women private investigators
• women sleuths