Genre: Mystery 34 years ago (1953) Violet Sullivan, mother of seven year old Daisy, and wife of a fists-first alcoholic husband, Foley, goes to the 4th of July fireworks show in her home town and never returns. 1987 Kinsey Millhone’s acquaintance, Sneaky Pete’s bartender Tannie, asks Kinsey if she can help her childhood friend, Daisy, come to grips with what
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Genre: Mystery (Kinsey Babysits a Felon) — Buy it! — Kinsey Millhone is a PI out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, CA (think Santa Barbara). An ex-cop, 37 years old (this is 1987) married twice and divorced twice, she lives in a garage apartment owned by her 87 year old landlord, Henry. Nord Lafferty calls Kinsey to ask
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(Cold Case Unsolved Murder) – In 1969, a girl was found murdered in a quarry near Lompoc, CA. That girl was never identified and the killer never found. It is now 1987 and Kinsey has just had a meeting with her old friend Lt. Dolan who is on medical leave from the Santa Teresa Police Department. Dolan tells her about
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(Kinsey is in Peril) Genre: Mystery Longtime Santa Teresa Geriatric Doctor, Dr. Dowan Purcell, is missing and his ex-wife has hired Kinsey Millhone to find him. As Kinsey starts her investigation, the complexity increases, as do the suspects. Dr. Purcell has been running a local nursing home since his retirement and is embroiled in a possible fraudulent Medicare billing issue.
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Genre: Mystery – (Kinsey solves another mystery) – In “O is for Outlaw” Kinsey Millhone’s ex-husband, Mickey, is close to death in an L.A. hospital. He was shot. Kinsey has not talked to Mickey for some time, but, is curious as to how Mickey got himself in this predicament and spends time looking into his recent activities. What she
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Genre: Mystery Rating: 3 WaterTowers Tom Newquist was found dead several weeks ago in his car in Nota Lake, CA. Tom was a Nota Lake detective in the local Sheriff’s Department. The past few months, Tom had seemed distracted and distant. Now that he is gone his wife, Selma, hires Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone to see if she can find
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