Sue Graftons #1 New York Times bestselling series, reissued for a whole new generation of readers D IS FOR DEADBEATWhen Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhones office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Its a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnt deliver the money himself. Shes almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardos retainer against her better judgment...When Limardos check bounces, Kinsey discovers shes been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggett--an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggetts corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks its murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained for--and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldve ever imagined...A Is for AlibiB Is for BurglarC Is for CorpseD Is for DeadbeatE Is for EvidenceF Is for FugitiveG Is for GumshoeH Is for HomicideI Is for InnocentJ Is for JudgmentK Is for KillerL is for LawlessM Is for MaliceN Is for NooseO Is for OutlawP Is for Peril Q Is for QuarryR Is for Ricochet S Is for Silence T Is for TrespassU Is for Undertow V Is for Vengeance W Is for Wasted XAbout the Author:#1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton (1940-2017) entered the mystery field in 1982 with the publication of A Is for Alibi, which introduced female hard-boiled private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, operating out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, (aka Santa Barbara) California, and launched the bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries. In addition to her books, shed published several Kinsey Millhone short stories, and with her husband, Steven Humphrey, wrote numerous movies for television, including A Killer in the Family (starring Robert Mitchum), Love on the Run (starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist) and two Agatha Christie adaptations, Sparkling Cyanide and Caribbean Mystery, which starred Helen Hayes. Grafton is published in 28 countries and in 26 languages.