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| Plot Summary of "G" is for Gumshoe |
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""G" is for Gumshoe , opens with private investigator Kinsey celebrating her thirty-third birthday. She is enjoying the move back into her newly re-constructed apartment. She has just accepted an assignment from a Mrs. Clyde Gersh to find Mrs. Gersh's missing mother. She also learns she has become the object of a "hit". Find out how these events intertwine for a very surprising outcome.
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Norma Mueller, Resident Scholar
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"Kinsey Millhone is having fun on May 5th. It's her birthday, she gets a new client and she makes a hit list! Persauded by a friend, she hires Robert Dietz, a tough bodyguard whom she likes and is attracted to. But can she take someone bossing her around for long?"
Megan, Resident Scholar
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"In this tale of Kinsey Millhone, she celebrates her thirty-third birthday as only she can. Kinsey moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of triggerman Tyrone Patty's hit list. As much as she hates to admit it, Kinsey realizes she's going to need help fending off a hit man and she hires a bofyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes his job very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into a case that will lead her into a gruesome truth about a long buried betrayal. "
Boppy, Resident Scholar
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"This is the seventh adventure for Kinsey Milhone and in this one she is the target who needs the help of a bodyguard.
Receiving a call on her 33rd birthday from a fellow private investigator, she learns that she is the target of Tyrone Patty, a killer she helped track down. He suggests she might think about getting a body guard. But Kinsey feels she has better things to do with her money and decides to tackle her next case.
This case is one of tracking down her client's mother who lives on the edge of the Mojave Desert and is rather eccentric.
But before she can even start the case, she is run off the road by a red pick up truck, wrecking her 1968 VW and landing her in the local hospital.
Maybe a body guard is a good idea after all. Enter Robert Dietz, a burnt out detective in his late 40's, with bad knees. Not only is he her body guard but he becomes her lover and this is something that Kinsey was not planning on at all."
Joan Sellarole, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
The crook is....
- stalking/killing innocents
Crime Thriller
Yes
Mostly a criminal POV story
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here?
- finding a known killer
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use?
- just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
Motive of antagonist
- revenge
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
- California
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths?
- 3-4
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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