"H" is for homicide

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

"H" is for homicide

Author:

Grafton, Sue.

ISBN:

9781415901724

Edition:

B.O.T. library ed.

Publication Information:

Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape ; [New York] : [Published by arrangement with Random House Audio], ℗1994.

Physical Description:

7 audio discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Number in series:

General Note:

Unabridged.

In one container.

Sequel to: G is for gumshoe; sequel: I is for innocent.

Summary:

It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz--no Girl Scout herself.

Personal Subject:

Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character), 1950--Fiction.

Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character), 1950- (OCoLC)fst01021810

Subject(s):

Women private investigators -- California -- Fiction.

California -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

California -- Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Added Author:

Added Corporate Author:

Books on Tape, Inc.

Random House Audio Publishing.

Electronic Access:

http://www.suegrafton.com

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

As the Los Angeles Times notes, this book confirms yet again that Kinsey Millhone is "a wonderful character, tough but not brutish, resourceful and sensitive, a fit knight to walk those mean streets with her male predecessors."

Author Notes

Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 24, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Louisville in 1961. Her first novel Keziah Dane was published in 1967. Her second novel, The Lolly-Madonna War, was published in 1969 and she adapted it into a screenplay. After that movie was released in 1973, she worked intermittently writing for television. A series she created, Nurse, ran for two seasons on CBS in the early 1980s.

Her writing career took off when A Is for Alibi was published in 1982 and received the Mysterious Stranger Award. This was the beginning of the Kinsey Millhone Mystery series. B Is for Burglar won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and C Is for Corpse won the Anthony Award. She also received the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bouchercon, and the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. She died from cancer on December 28, 2017 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

This eighth in an alphabetically titled mystery series--Holt will publish ``I'' is for Innocentor is quotes around the letters PW style? in May--finds sleuth Kinsey Millhone undercover in a Los Angeles barrio. Some 178,000 hardcover copies of this Literary and Mystery Guild selection have been sold. (May (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved