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"A" for Alibi is dedicated to author Chip Grafton, Sue Grafton's father, "who set me on this path". [5] Chip Grafton was a municipal bond attorney in Kentucky who pursued a secondary career as a crime novelist, winning minor acclaim for four novels. He died on January 31, 1982 at age 72, four months before 'A' is for Alibi was published. [6]
Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to C. W. Grafton (1909–1982) and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian missionaries. [2]Her father was a municipal bond lawyer who also wrote mystery novels, and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher. [3]
I pulled a few articles some days ago and placed them into a "Further reading" section on the Sue Grafton page, (for anyone to use) and copied a couple over here, which, off the top of my head, have the most material about this book. In reply to the query in your edit summary: yes, I would like to work on the all the articles in the series.
Keziah Dane is a 1967 novel by American writer Sue Grafton. [1] A work of mainstream fiction, this novel was published by Grafton when she was 27 years old. [2] This is one of two Sue Grafton novels published before her "Alphabet" series of mystery novels.
In an interview with NPR on August 20, 2017, Grafton stated the basis of the book was an amalgamation of two actual events: "The origin was a case that happened in Santa Barbara, where a kid was picked up because his brother owed $1,500 to a drug dealer. And eventually, he was shot and killed up in the mountains.
‘You don’t lie about being at the scene when your family is being brutally murdered. You don’t lie about that,’ said John Meadors
The book starts off in third-person narrative by a woman called Teddy Xanakis. Teddy is in the throes of a bitter divorce and trying to ruin her ex-husband Ari, who had an affair with her best friend. The story transitions into first-person narrative by Kinsey Millhone.
Still, Wednesday’s filing outlining Kohberger’s alibi had been anticipated for months: Idaho law requires a defendant to submit in writing “the specific place or places at which the ...