Private investigator Kinsey Millhone, an unmarried, licensed, bonded, white woman of age thirty-two from Santa Teresa, California, investigates the homicide of Lisa Osterling’s husband, Rudd Osterling, who was previously a cocaine dealer. She also explores the disappearance of the Parker shotgun, a rare and beautifully crafted shotgun that is no longer produced anymore because the company went out of business. Lisa believes that the police wrote off the murder as a failed attempt at Rudd’s drug dealing, and she is determined to figure out the convict before the birth of her son. Initially, Kinsey heads to the gun shop located on a narrow side street in Colgate to elaborate with the owner, Avery Lamb, about the appraisal he completed on the
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In Sue Grafton’s The Parker Shotgun, Jackie and Bill Barnett exhibit covetous behavior for the highly-sought-after Parker shotgun that Kinsey Millhone recognizes to identify the culprit of Rudd’s murder, thus indicating that excessive acquisitiveness often triggers unpredictable, heartless actions. In Kinsey’s first encounter with Jackie, Jackie discloses that she had a miserable marriage with Bill due to the fact that his extravagant promises to her were lies. Kinsey meets Jackie in Jackie’s house, located back in Rudd’s neighborhood. After Jackie pours coffee for both herself and Kinsey, she discusses the details regarding the shotgun that previously belonged to Avery’s gun shop. Kinsey explicates that Jackie “glanced at me self-consciously. ‘I just took that gun to spite him,’ [Jackie] said with a nod toward the yard. ‘I’ve been married to Bill for six years and miserable for every one of them. It was my own fault. I’d been divorced for ages and I was doing fine, but somehow when I hit fifty, I got in a panic. Afraid of growing …show more content…
She reveals that Bill currently took possession of the shotgun that was located in the gun cabinet, blending in with the other three classic shotguns in the case. Conversely, Bill would pass away soon from his strokes, and his wife Jackie would receive his money, property, and possessions. Accordingly, Jackie would marry the man she truly wants to be with: Avery. Ultimately, they would have everything they wanted—real love and
In Sue Grafton’s The Parker Shotgun, Jackie and Bill Barnett exhibit covetous behavior for the highly-sought-after Parker shotgun that Kinsey Millhone recognizes to identify the culprit of Rudd’s murder, thus indicating that excessive acquisitiveness often triggers unpredictable, heartless actions. In Kinsey’s first encounter with Jackie, Jackie discloses that she had a miserable marriage with Bill due to the fact that his extravagant promises to her were lies. Kinsey meets Jackie in Jackie’s house, located back in Rudd’s neighborhood. After Jackie pours coffee for both herself and Kinsey, she discusses the details regarding the shotgun that previously belonged to Avery’s gun shop. Kinsey explicates that Jackie “glanced at me self-consciously. ‘I just took that gun to spite him,’ [Jackie] said with a nod toward the yard. ‘I’ve been married to Bill for six years and miserable for every one of them. It was my own fault. I’d been divorced for ages and I was doing fine, but somehow when I hit fifty, I got in a panic. Afraid of growing …show more content…
She reveals that Bill currently took possession of the shotgun that was located in the gun cabinet, blending in with the other three classic shotguns in the case. Conversely, Bill would pass away soon from his strokes, and his wife Jackie would receive his money, property, and possessions. Accordingly, Jackie would marry the man she truly wants to be with: Avery. Ultimately, they would have everything they wanted—real love and