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A is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
Plenty of people in the picturesque town of Santa Teresa, California, wanted Laurence Fife, a ruthless divorce attorney, dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, who was convicted of the crime. Now, eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killer her husband. Kinsey must pursue a trail that's eight years old: one that leads from a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted; to a lawyer defensively loyal to his dead partner -- and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for far too few skills.
This trail will twist to include them all, with Kinsey following every turn until it finally twists back on itself and she fins herself face-to-face with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.
Book Details
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
- Publish Date: Apr 15th, 1982
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.90in - 1.20in - 1.10lb
- EAN: 9780805013344
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths• Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
About the Author
Grafton, Sue: - #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton (1940-2017) entered the mystery field in 1982 with the publication of 'A' Is for Alibi, which introduced female hard-boiled private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, operating out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, (aka Santa Barbara) California, and launched the bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries. In addition to her books, she published several Kinsey Millhone short stories, and with her husband, Steven Humphrey, wrote numerous movies for television, including "A Killer in the Family" (starring Robert Mitchum), "Love on the Run" (starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist) and two Agatha Christie adaptations, "Sparkling Cyanide" and "Caribbean Mystery," which starred Helen Hayes. Grafton is published in 28 countries and in 26 languages.
Praise for this book
"Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental." --Lucille Kallen
"Kinsey Millhone is an entirely fresh and original character, and I feel sure that the series will go all through the alphabet." --Patricia Moyes