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Novels by Sue Grafton (Study Guide): "U" Is for Undertow, "G" Is for Gumshoe, "E" Is for Evidence, "F" Is for Fugitive, Keziah Dane |
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Print on Demand (Paperback) |
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115523328X |
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Books LLC |
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0.22 pounds |
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5.83 x 8.9 x 0.31 inches |
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: "U" Is for Undertow, "G" Is for Gumshoe, "E" Is for Evidence, "F" Is for Fugitive, Keziah Dane, "C" Is for Corpse, "D" Is for Deadbeat, "B" Is for Burglar, "A" Is for Alibi, "I" Is for Innocent, "H" Is for Homicide, "S" Is for Silence, "T" Is for Trespass, "L" Is for Lawless, "M" Is for Malice, "K" Is for Killer, "Q" Is for Quarry, "P" Is for Peril, "J" Is for Judgment, "N" Is for Noose, "O" Is for Outlaw, "R" Is for Ricochet. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "U" Is for Undertow is the twenty-first novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel, set in 1988, finds Kinsey investigating the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl in 1967 and the narrative weaves between both time periods. The novel has reached the top position on several best-seller lists. In April 1988, Kinsey Millhone is hired by a young man named Michael Sutton to investigate a memory that he claims to have recovered of two people burying a body in the woods in the exclusive Horton Ravine neighborhood in 1967, when he turned six years old. He claims that the burial took place on his birthday, two days after a famous unsolved kidnapping of a four-year-old named Mary Claire in the neighborhood, in which the kidnappers requested $25,000 but never picked up the ransom after police were called. She was never found. Although Michael's memory is hazy, he and Kinsey manage to locate the spot of the burial, but a police dig uncovers only the body of a wolfdog named Ulf. One of the bystanders watching the dig, a banker named Walker McNally, who was a high school classmate of Kinsey, then spends the entire weekend drinking and kills a young woman in a DUI on Sunda...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25577776
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