Kinsey Millhone · Book 2

B Is for Burglar

by Sue Grafton

Published
1 January 1985
Pages
240
ISBN-13
9780739357354
Type
novel

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Cover of B Is for Burglar

About this book

B Is for Burglar (1985), the second book at 240 pages, keeps Kinsey working cases the old-fashioned way -- legwork, index cards, a battered Volkswagen -- in the classic hardboiled register that set her apart from many contemporaries.

Its place in Kinsey Millhone

B Is for Burglar is book 2 in the Kinsey Millhone series. It follows A Is for Alibi. It is followed by C Is for Corpse. See the full Kinsey Millhone reading order.

Kinsey Millhone is a twice-divorced, fiercely independent private investigator working out of the fictional Santa Teresa, California — a thinly veiled Santa Barbara — who solves cases the old-fashioned way: legwork, index cards, a battered Volkswagen, and a willingness to get punched. Sue Grafton built the series around a gimmick that became a genuine feat of sustained craft: 25 novels, each titled for a letter of the alphabet, A Is for Alibi through Y Is for Yesterday , published across 35 years without the…

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