"C" is for corpse : a Kinsey Millhone mystery

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

"C" is for corpse : a Kinsey Millhone mystery

Author:

Grafton, Sue.

ISBN:

9781415901458

Edition:

B.O.T. library ed.

Publication Information:

Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape ; [New York] : Published by arrangement with Random House Audio, ℗1993.

Physical Description:

7 audio discs (8 hr., 24 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Kinsey Millhone mysteries.

Rinehart suspense novel (Books on Tape, Inc.)

General Note:

Title from container.

Unabridged.

Sequel to: B is for burglar; sequel: D is for deadbeat.

Summary:

Bobby Callahan was only twenty when an accident left him disfigured for life. The doctors patched up his body but they couldn't fix his mind. Huge chunks of his memory were lost but he knew someone had tried to kill him and that the 'accident' was deliberate. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the murderer but he didn't know what. No one believed him, so he hired Kinsey Millhone. Three days later Bobby was dead.

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.

Genre:

Added Author:

Added Corporate Author:

Books on Tape, Inc.

Random House Audio Publishing.

Holds:

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Summary

Bobby Callahan was only 20 when an accident left him disfigured for life. The doctors patched up his body but they couldn't fix his mind.

Huge chunks of his memory were lost but he knew someone had tried to kill him and that the "accident" was deliberate. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the murderer but he didn't know what. No one believed him...so he hired Kinsey Millhone.

Three days later Bobby was dead. But Kinsey never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing, now she'd find the killer instead.

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

The corpse in private eye Kinsey Millhone's third adventure (``A'' Is for Alibi and ``B'' Is for Burglar is that of Bobby Callahan, a young man she first meets while both are working out in a local gym. Bobby is convinced the car crash he'd been injured in was really an attempt on his life and, fearful of another assault, persuades Kinsey to investigate. A few days later, Bobby is indeed killed, and Kinsey stays on the case. She is befriended by Bobby's wealthy mother, his opportunistic stepfather and druggie, anoretic stepsister. She learns Bobby was having an affair with a friend of his mother's whose first husband had been killed in a suspicious burglary, and whose second is county pathologist. While the almost hard-boiled Kinsey ferrets out the ugly secrets behind Bobby's death, she's also trying to save her elderly landlord from the schemes of the scam-operating senior lady he's smitten with. Kinsey Millhone is nobody's fool; she's also sensitive, funny and very likable. Writing with a light, sure touch, Grafton has produced a fast-moving California story about quirky, believable people. (May 12) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved