β Scribed by Sue Grafton
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SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhones office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Its a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnt deliver the money himself. Shes almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardos retainer against her better judgmentWhen Limardos check bounces, Kinsey discovers shes been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettan ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggetts corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks its murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forand what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldve ever imagined
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SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneβs office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itβs a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnβt deliver the money himself. Sheβs almost certain something is off. B
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chroni
SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhones office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Its a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnt deliver the money himself. Shes almost certain something is off. But
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chroni
### From Publishers Weekly "D" is for Detective Kinsey Millhone, given $25,000 of stolen drug money by a drunkard named Daggett who then dies in a drowning. When she decides to deliver the money to Daggett's designee, a young man who was the sole survivor of an auto accident perpetrated by Daggett,
SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneβs office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itβs a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnβt deliver the money himself. Sheβs almost certain something is off.