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L Is for Lawless

by Sue Grafton

ISBN: 0805019375
ISBN-13: 9780805019377
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Kinsey Millhone, who sometimes lies "just to keep up my skills," is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevarications who quite literally take her on the ride of her life. Quick-witted, smart-mouthed private eye Millhone joins up with a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in an adventure that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with an empty bank balance and a major headache.

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"This adventure, with its straightforward momentum and colourful clues, is the closest in spirit so far to Nancy Drew; as zestful and engrossing as ever..."

   -- Times Literary Supplement

"This is Sue Grafton at her best."    -- Harriet Waugh

   -- Spectator

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Published date: 1995
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds

Publisher's Notes

"L" Is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl - quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky - poking her nose into everyone's dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance. America's favorite borderline delinquent is back with her one-liners on tap and her energy level on high, romping through her fastest and funniest adventure in this, her twelfth foray into the alphabet of crime.

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