These excerpts from the novel "F" is for FugITIVE introduce private investigator Kinsey Millhone as she takes on a case hired by Royce Fowler, a man whose son, Bailey Fowler, has recently been arrested for an old murder. The text focuses heavily on the dysfunctional Fowler family, including Royce, his ailing wife Oribelle (Ori), and their daughter Ann, and the details of the seventeen-year-old murder of Jean Timberlake, Bailey's ex-girlfriend. Millhone's investigation leads her to question various townspeople and former acquaintances of the victim and Bailey, including the victim's mother Shana Timberlake, Bailey's attorney Jack Clemson, and a local dentist David Poletti, while also enduring escalating, life-threatening events around her temporary residence. The narrative concludes dramatically with the death of Ori, the uncovering of a major financial secret involving Ann and the murder victim, and a confrontation in which Ann accidentally kills Royce before Millhone submits her final report on the complex, tragic case.

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