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GRAFTON, SUE M Is for Malice: First Edition
Henry Holt and Company, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition - 1996' stated on copyright page with full number line (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) and a $25.00 list price on front dust jacket flap. "Grafton's fifteenth entry in her popular alphabet series has supersleuth Kinsey Millhone investigating a particularly nasty murder. Bader Malek has died, leaving his three sons squabbling over a considerable fortune. A fourth son, Guy, was sent away in disgrace years earlier after a series of juvenile arrests for drugs, drinking, and assorted scams. Hoping Guy is dead or unfindable so they can split his share of the fortune, the three remaining Maleks figure they ought to make a good-faith effort to find him, so they hire Kinsey, who discovers Guy living a few hundred miles away, working as a church janitor. Surprisingly, he has turned over a new leaf and has become a born-again Christian. Once Kinsey finds him and breaks the news of his inheritance, he decides to return home to reconcile with his brothers. Bad idea. Two days later, Guy is found dead. Reenter Kinsey, who's developed an affection for the unassuming Guy, perhaps because his family problems remind her of her own troubled history. The cops arrest one of Guy's sibs for the murder, but Kinsey's not sure he's the killer. She figures the murder is linked to Guy's checkered past and sets out--successfully, of course--to prove her point. One can only marvel at Grafton's seemingly endless stock of adventurous and inventive plots and hope that a finite alphabet won't limit her to just 26 mysteries." -- Booklist.
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