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"J" is for judgment / Sue Grafton.
"J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little Mexican resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. What did Kinsey Millhone have to say? "In truth, the facts about Wendell Jaffe had nothing to do with my family history, but murder is seldom tidy and no one ever said revelations operate in a straight line. It was my investigation into the dead man's past that triggered the inquiry into my own, and in the end the two stories became difficult to separate." Five years ago, when Jaffe's thirty-five-foot ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he'd gone overboard. The note he left behind admitted he was flat broke, his business bankrupt, and his real estate gambit nothing but a huge Ponzi scheme about to collapse with criminal indictment certain to follow. When the authorities descended on his bank and his books soon after, there was nothing left; Jaffe had stripped the lot. But Jaffe wasn't quite without assets. There was his
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- ISBN: 0333595750
- ISBN: 9780333595756
- ISBN: 0312945272
- ISBN: 9780312945275
- ISBN: 0805019359 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780805019353 (acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: 288 pages ; 24 cm. 288 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 1993.
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| Subject: | Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character). Women private investigators > California > Fiction. California > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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