Kinsey Millhone · Book 1
A Is for Alibi
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 243
- ISBN-13
- 9780613034876
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Is for Alibi (1982) opens Sue Grafton's alphabet series, introducing twice-divorced private investigator Kinsey Millhone in fictional Santa Teresa, California -- a thinly veiled Santa Barbara -- and the deliberately 1980s-set world Grafton would keep Kinsey in for all 25 books.
Its place in Kinsey Millhone
A Is for Alibi is book 1 in the Kinsey Millhone series. It is followed by B Is for Burglar. See the full Kinsey Millhone reading order.
Kinsey Millhone is a twice-divorced, fiercely independent private investigator working out of the fictional Santa Teresa, California — a thinly veiled Santa Barbara — who solves cases the old-fashioned way: legwork, index cards, a battered Volkswagen, and a willingness to get punched. Sue Grafton built the series around a gimmick that became a genuine feat of sustained craft: 25 novels, each titled for a letter of the alphabet, A Is for Alibi through Y Is for Yesterday , published across 35 years without the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780805013344
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613034876