Kinsey Millhone · Book 3

C Is for Corpse

by Sue Grafton

Published
1 January 1986
Pages
250
ISBN-13
9785557109413
Type
novel

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Cover of C Is for Corpse

About this book

C Is for Corpse (1986), 250 pages, is the third entry, Grafton's technical rigor about how PI work actually functions -- paperwork and dead ends alongside danger -- already well established this early in the series.

Its place in Kinsey Millhone

C Is for Corpse is book 3 in the Kinsey Millhone series. It follows B Is for Burglar. It is followed by D Is for Deadbeat. 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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