"The client came to Kinsey Millhone with an easy job -- just deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid. A little odd, and a little too easy, but Kinsey took Alvin Limardo's retainer check anyway. It turned out to be as phony as he was. In real life, his name was John Daggett, a chronic drunk with a record as long as your arm and a reputation for sleazy deals. But he wasn't just a deadbeat. By the time Kinsey caught up with him, he was a dead body - with a whole host of people who...
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"Kinsey Millhone celebrates her 33rd birthday as only she can -- she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of triggerman Tyrone Patty's hit list. As much as she hates to admit it, Kinsey realizes even she's going to need help fending off a hit man and she hires a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Purshe-driving P.I. who takes his job very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kin...
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"Kinsey Millhone celebrates her 33rd birthday as only she can -- she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of triggerman Tyrone Patty's hit list. As much as she hates to admit it, Kinsey realizes even she's going to need help fending off a hit man and she hires a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Purshe-driving P.I...
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"Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack, In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury a...
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"Wendell Jaffe has been dead for five years—until his former insurance agent spots him in a dusty resort bar. Now California Fidelity wants Kinsey Millhone to track down the dead man. Just two months before, his widow collected on Jaffe’s $500,000 life insurance policy—her only legacy since Jaffe went overboard, bankrupt and about to be indicted for his fraudulent real estate schemes. As Kinsey pushes deeper into the mystery surrounding Wendell Jaffe’s pseudocide, she explores her own...
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"Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist firsting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. . . . The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. . . . Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind."; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; Signed ...
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"Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack, In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits o...
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"Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack, In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a seriou...
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"M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune-four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them-angry, trou...
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"Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office-a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of 65, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. . . Newquist's widow didn't doubt the coroner's report. But what Selma couldn't accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. . . . Selma Newquist wanted ...
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"Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office-a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of 65, Newquist worked ...
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"Once Mickey Magruder was a cop with a wild streak. And Kinsey Millhone was a younger cop who adored and married him. Then Mickey was implicated in a fatal beating, and Kinsey walked out. Now, fourteen years later, she comes face-to-face with those tragic years and Mickey's harrowing downward spiral after he lost the job he loved -- and the marriage he loved a little less.
Mickey lies dying in an L.A. hospital. Trying to find out how Mickey got there, Kinsey uncovers evidence that he was innocent of the beating charge. But as s...
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"Once Mickey Magruder was a cop with a wild streak. And Kinsey Millhone was a younger cop who adored and married him. Then Mickey was implicated in a fatal beating, and Kinsey walked out. Now, fourteen years later, she comes face-to-face with those tragic years and Mickey's harrowing downward spiral after he lost the job he loved -- and the marriage he loved a little less.
Mickey lies dying in an L.A. hospital. Trying to find out how Mickey got there, Kinsey uncovers evidence that he was inn...
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"Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Teresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed contented with his life. At the time of his disappearance, he was running a nursing care facility where both the staff and the p...
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"Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Teresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed contented with his life. At the time of his disappearance, he was running a nursing care facility where both the staff and the patients loved him. H...
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"S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the missing, the silence of oblivion.
"On July 4, 1953, in the town of Serena Station, Violet Sullivan left for the annual fireworks display and was never seen again. Some say she ran off with one of her many lovers in her new Chevrolet Bel Air; others say she was murdered by her abusive husband. But for her 6-year-old daughter...
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"It's almost her 38th birthday, which might explain why Kinsey Millhone is annoyed to learn that the very young-looking guy seeking her help is actually 27. Once the boyish Michael Sutton starts pleading his case, though, Kinsey decides to take it on ... For one day. As Sutton explains it, he's had a memory flashback to when he was six and stumbled upon the grave of a little girl whose disappe...
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