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"A" is for alibi a Kinsey Millhone mystery

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Main Author: Grafton, Sue
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1982.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Grafton, Sue. Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 1.
Subjects:
Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > California > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > California.
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Physical Description:274 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0030590485 :
9780030590481
0805013342
9780805013344
Author Notes:Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 24, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Louisville in 1961. Her first novel Keziah Dane was published in 1967. Her second novel, The Lolly-Madonna War, was published in 1969 and she adapted it into a screenplay. After that movie was released in 1973, she worked intermittently writing for television. A series she created, Nurse, ran for two seasons on CBS in the early 1980s.

Her writing career took off when A Is for Alibi was published in 1982 and received the Mysterious Stranger Award. This was the beginning of the Kinsey Millhone Mystery series. B Is for Burglar won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and C Is for Corpse won the Anthony Award. She also received the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bouchercon, and the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. She died from cancer on December 28, 2017 at the age of 77.

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