"C" Is for Corpse "C" Is for Corpse
Book 3 - The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries

"C" Is for Corpse

A Kinsey Millhone Mystery

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Publisher Description

You haven't read a thriller until you read #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's novels with her unforgettable P.I. Kinsey Millhone…

"C" is for Corpse

He was young-maybe twenty or so-and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. It saddened Kinsey and made her curious. She could see he was in a lot of pain. But for three weeks, as Kinsey'd watched him doggedly working out at the local gym, putting himself through a grueling exercise routine, he never spoke.

Then one Monday morning when there was no one else in the gym, Bobby Callahan approached her. His story was hard to credit: a murderous assault by a tailgating car on a lonely rural road, a roadside smash into a canyon 400 feet below, his Porsche a bare ruin, his best friend dead. The doctors had managed to put his body back together again-sort of. His mother's money had seen to that. What they couldn't fix was his mind, couldn't restore the huge chunks of memory wiped out by the crash. Bobby knew someone had tried to kill him, but he didn't know why. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the killer, but he didn't know what it was. And he sensed that someone was still out there, ready to pounce at the first sign his memory was coming back. He'd been to the cops, but they'd shrugged off his story. His family thought he had a screw loose. But he was scared-scared to death. He wanted to hire Kinsey.

His case didn't have a whole lot going for it, but he was hard to resist: young, brave, hurt. She took him on. And three days later, Bobby Callahan was dead.

Kinsey Millhone never welshed a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.

"A" Is for Alibi
"B" Is for Burglar
"C" Is for Corpse
"D" Is for Deadbeat
"E" Is for Evidence
"F" Is for Fugitive
"G" Is for Gumshoe
"H" Is for Homicide
"I" Is for Innocent
"J" Is for Judgment
"K" Is for Killer
"L" is for Lawless
"M" Is for Malice
"N" Is for Noose
"O" Is for Outlaw
"P" Is for Peril
"Q" Is for Quarry
"R" Is for Ricochet
"S" Is for Silence
"T" Is for Trespass
"U" Is for Undertow
"V" Is for Vengeance
"W" Is for Wasted
"X"

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
1986
May 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
243
Pages
PUBLISHER
Henry Holt and Co.
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
664.3
KB

Customer Reviews

Texaspoet ,

Of course it is good

I thought the ending was too short and too concise.

brooksea ,

Ugh

Too easy to figure out.

Dr Nancy Kay ,

C is for Corpse

I enjoy Grafton's books and this one has especially good plot. Two criticisms: why oh why all the snark toward overweight people especially women? We're pretty harmless and have enough to deal with. Easy targets. Next thought, unrelated: her books and characters and prose are good enough to read even without the grand finale at the end of every book. Once in a while a more cerebral wrap-up would be fine, and would add to the suspense of the next book.
Thanks Sue -

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