millhone, kinsey (fictitious character)

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.

After a private eye finds a $5,000 deposit to her bank account is not a mistake--but a set-up--she unravels the frame-up. The murder trail she follows leads to her front door.

A woman wrongly convicted of murdering her husband hires private detective Kinsey Millhone to find the real killer.