Kinsey Millhone · Book 7

G Is for Gumshoe

by Sue Grafton

Published
1 January 1990
Pages
341
ISBN-13
9780449219362
Type
novel

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Cover of G Is for Gumshoe

About this book

G Is for Gumshoe (1990) is Grafton's seventh entry, Kinsey once again working a case through sheer legwork and dry humor rather than the softened likability common to other detective fiction of the era.

Its place in Kinsey Millhone

G Is for Gumshoe is book 7 in the Kinsey Millhone series. It follows F Is for Fugitive. It is followed by H Is for Homicide. 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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