D Is For Deadbeat

Sue Grafton Kinsey Millhone book 4 Bantam-Mystery Used Paperback Cover has wear mostly around the edges and corners. Front cover is creased. Inside front cover has a sticker om it. Inside cover is tanned. Spine has creasing. Pages are clean no internal tears, marks, or creases. When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone's office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver a cashier's check for $25,000. The recipient: a fifteen-year-old boy. It's a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesn't deliver the money himself. She's almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardo's retainer against her better judgment…Limardo pays her with another check as the retainer. It bounces and Kinsey discovers she's been had. She learns that he is really John Daggett—an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Kinsey is out $400 and she's now in hot pursuit of Daggett.When Daggett's corp