title: Asking For Murder (Advice Column Mysteries)
author:  Roberta Isleib 
description: Clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib is the author of eight mysteries, including the Cassie Burdette golf mystery series and the Rebecca Butterman advice column mysteries. Her books and stories have been nominated for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She is the past president of Sisters in Crime National.
zlib_text: "C" is for CORPSE
  
  Sue Grafton
  
  (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
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  I met Bobby Callahan on Monday of that week. By Thursday, he was dead. He was
  convinced someone was trying to kill him and it turned out to be true, but
  none of us figured it out in time to save him. I've never worked for a dead
  man before and I hope I won't have to do it again. This report is for him, for
  whatever it's worth.
  
  My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a licensed private investigator, doing
  business in Santa Teresa, California, which is ninety-five miles north of Los
  Angeles. I'm thirty-two years old, twice divorced. I like being alone and I
  suspect my independence suits me better than it should. Bobby challenged that.
  I don't know quite how or why. He was only twenty-three years old. I wasn't
  romantically involved with him in any sense of the word, but I did care and
  his death served to remind me, like a custard pie in the face, that life is
  sometimes one big savage joke. Not funny "ha ha,"