Used paperback in poor condition. Cover well worn with tears on top and bottom of spine. Pages intact and discoloured with age. Inscriptions on flyleaf. acceptable as a reading copy. 243 pages. Published by Macmillan, 1987. ISBN 0330315846.

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I’m a licensed private investigator…thirty two, twice divorced. I like being alone and I suspect that my independence suits me better than it should…’

Kinsey met Bobby Callahan in the gym on Monday morning.

His story was hard to credit: a murderous assault by a tailgating car on a lonely rural road, a roadside smash into a canyon 400 feet below, his Porsche a ruin, his best friend dead, and his memory severely impaired. He was convinced someone was trying to kill him.

By Thursday, he was dead.

But Kinsey wasn’t going back on a deal. She had been hired to prevent a murder. Now she was looking for the murderer…