D Is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
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"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...
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D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
September 14, 1990, Pan Books
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0330315854 9780330315852
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D Is for Deadbeat
May 1990, Ulverscroft Large Print
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0708921183 9780708921180
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"Later, I found out his name was John Dagget, but that's not how he introduced himself the day he walked into my office."
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"Later, I found out his name was John Dagget, but that's not how he introduced himself the day he walked into my office."
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| May 16, 2020 | Edited by CoverBot | Added new cover |
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