signed first edition
1982 · New York
by Grafton, Sue
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy fo the book in like dust jacket. Signed by the author directly on the title page.
The first novel of Grafton’s immensely popular Kinsey Millhone series. The detective is hired to investigate the murder of a husband -- a murder that had been falsely pinned on his wife years earlier. The idea for the Alphabet series came from chiefly two influences – her own messy divorce with her husband which, she admitted, inspired numerous fantasies of his death, and her reading of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, a book with its own interesting alphabetical organization. (truncated)
The first novel of Grafton’s immensely popular Kinsey Millhone series. The detective is hired to investigate the murder of a husband -- a murder that had been falsely pinned on his wife years earlier. The idea for the Alphabet series came from chiefly two influences – her own messy divorce with her husband which, she admitted, inspired numerous fantasies of his death, and her reading of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, a book with its own interesting alphabetical organization. (truncated)