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Sue Grafton
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Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the series featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said the strongest influence on her novels is author Ross Macdonald. Prior to success with series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sue Grafton is the daughter of novelist C. W. Grafton and Vivian Harnsberger, Grafton and her sister Ann were raised in Louisville. The town features in some of her novels and she is a member of Pi Beta Phi. After graduating, Grafton worked as an admissions clerk, a cashier. Grafton began writing when she was 18 and finished her first novel four years later and she continued writing and completed six more manuscripts. Two of these seven novels were published, unable to find success with her novels, Grafton turned to screenplays. Grafton worked for the next 15 years writing screenplays for movies, including Sex and the Single Parent, Mark, I Love You. Her screenplay for Walking Through the Fire earned a Christopher Award in 1979 and she is also credited with the story upon which the screenplay for the made for TV movie Svengali was based. Her experience as a screenwriter taught her the basics of structuring a story, writing dialogue, Grafton then felt ready to return to writing fiction. While going through a divorce and custody battle that lasted six long years. Her fantasies were so vivid that she decided to write them down and she had long been fascinated by mysteries that had related titles, including those by John D. MacDonald, whose titles referenced colors, and Harry Kemelman, who used days of the week. While reading Edward Goreys The Gashlycrumb Tinies, a picture book of children who die by various means. She immediately sat down and made a list of all of the words that she knew. This exercise led to her works, a chronological series of mystery novels. Known as the novels, the stories are set in and around the fictional town of Santa Teresa
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Mystery fiction
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Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. In a closed circle of suspects, each suspect must have a credible motive, the central character must be a detective who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts fairly presented to the reader. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element, Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. Mystery fiction may involve a mystery where the solution does not have to be logical. This contrasted with parallel titles of the names which contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction. The first use of mystery in this sense was by Dime Mystery, the genre of mystery novels is a young form of literature that has developed over the past 200 years. The rise of literacy began in the years of the English Renaissance and, as began to read over time. As people became more individualistic in their thinking, they developed a respect for human reason, perhaps a reason that mystery fiction was unheard of before the 1800s was due in part to the lack of true police forces. Before the Industrial Revolution, many of the towns would have constables, naturally, the constable would be aware of every individual in the town, and crimes were either solved quickly or left unsolved entirely. As people began to crowd into cities, police forces became institutionalized and the need for detectives was realized – thus the mystery novel arose. An early work of mystery fiction, Das Fräulein von Scuderi by E. T. A. Hoffmann, was an influence on The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe as may have been Voltaires Zadig. Wilkie Collins epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, in 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. The genre began to expand near the turn of century with the development of dime novels, books were especially helpful to the genre, with many authors writing in the genre in the 1920s. An important contribution to fiction in the 1920s was the development of the juvenile mystery by Edward Stratemeyer. Stratemeyer originally developed and wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries written under the Franklin W. Dixon, the massive popularity of pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s increased interest in mystery fiction. The detective fiction author Ellery Queen is also credited with continuing interest in mystery fiction, interest in mystery fiction continues to this day because of various television shows which have used mystery themes and the many juvenile and adult novels which continue to be published. There is some overlap with thriller or suspense novels and authors in those genres may consider themselves mystery novelists. Comic books and like graphic novels have carried on the tradition, Mystery fiction can be divided into numerous categories, including traditional mystery, legal thriller, medical thriller, cozy mystery, police procedural, and hardboiled
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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G. P. Putnams Sons is an American book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group, the company began as Wiley & Putnam with the 1838 partnership between George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley, whose father had founded his own company in 1807. In 1841, Putnam went to London where he set up a branch office, in 1848, he returned to New York, where he dissolved the partnership with John Wiley and established G. Putnam Broadway, publishing a variety of works including quality illustrated books. Wiley began John Wiley, which is still an independent publisher to the present day, Putnam & Co. started Putnam’s Magazine with Charles Frederick Briggs as its editor. On George Palmer Putnam’s death in 1872, his sons George H. John and Irving inherited the business, son George H. Putnam became president of the firm, a position he held for the next fifty-two years. In 1874, the company established its own printing and manufacturing office, set up by John Putnam. On the death of George H. Putnam in 1930, the various Putnam heirs voted to merge the firm with Minton, George Palmer Putnams grandson, George P. Putnam, left the firm at that time. Melville Minton, the partner and sales manager of Minton Balch & Co. became acting president, in 1936, Putnam acquired the publisher Coward-McCann, and ran it as an imprint into the 1980s. Upon Melville Mintons death, his son Walter J. Minton took command of Putnams and brought the company to its lofty heights as one of the countrys most respected, in 1965, G. P. Putnams Sons acquired Berkley Books, a mass market paperback publishing house. Ten years later, Putnam Publishing Group and Berkley Publishing Group were sold to MCA, in 1982, Putnam acquired the respected childrens book publisher, Grosset & Dunlap, from Filmways. In 1996, the company was bought by the Penguin Group, the new owners merged Putnam/Berkley with Penguin USA to form Penguin Putnam Inc. who uses the name to publish the G. P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers, in 2013, Penguin merged with Bertelsmanns Random House, forming Penguin Random House. Some of the authors associated with G. P. Putnams Sons. Notes Bibliography About Putnam at Penguin Group
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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OCLC
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The Online Computer Library Center is a US-based nonprofit cooperative organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the worlds information and reducing information costs. It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services, the group first met on July 5,1967 on the campus of the Ohio State University to sign the articles of incorporation for the nonprofit organization. The group hired Frederick G. Kilgour, a former Yale University medical school librarian, Kilgour wished to merge the latest information storage and retrieval system of the time, the computer, with the oldest, the library. The goal of network and database was to bring libraries together to cooperatively keep track of the worlds information in order to best serve researchers and scholars. The first library to do online cataloging through OCLC was the Alden Library at Ohio University on August 26,1971 and this was the first occurrence of online cataloging by any library worldwide. Membership in OCLC is based on use of services and contribution of data, between 1967 and 1977, OCLC membership was limited to institutions in Ohio, but in 1978, a new governance structure was established that allowed institutions from other states to join. In 2002, the structure was again modified to accommodate participation from outside the United States. As OCLC expanded services in the United States outside of Ohio, it relied on establishing strategic partnerships with networks, organizations that provided training, support, by 2008, there were 15 independent United States regional service providers. OCLC networks played a key role in OCLC governance, with networks electing delegates to serve on OCLC Members Council, in early 2009, OCLC negotiated new contracts with the former networks and opened a centralized support center. OCLC provides bibliographic, abstract and full-text information to anyone, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog, the largest online public access catalog in the world. WorldCat has holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. org, in October 2005, the OCLC technical staff began a wiki project, WikiD, allowing readers to add commentary and structured-field information associated with any WorldCat record. The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988, a browser for books with their Dewey Decimal Classifications was available until July 2013, it was replaced by the Classify Service. S. The reference management service QuestionPoint provides libraries with tools to communicate with users and this around-the-clock reference service is provided by a cooperative of participating global libraries. OCLC has produced cards for members since 1971 with its shared online catalog. OCLC commercially sells software, e. g. CONTENTdm for managing digital collections, OCLC has been conducting research for the library community for more than 30 years. In accordance with its mission, OCLC makes its research outcomes known through various publications and these publications, including journal articles, reports, newsletters, and presentations, are available through the organizations website. The most recent publications are displayed first, and all archived resources, membership Reports – A number of significant reports on topics ranging from virtual reference in libraries to perceptions about library funding
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"T" Is for Trespass
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T Is for Trespass is the 20th novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in the fictional Santa Teresa, California. Kinsey’s cantankerous neighbor Gus is badly injured in a fall and hires Solana Rojas, Kinsey becomes suspicious when Gus becomes isolated and withdrawn. She finds out that Solana is a con artist who engages in identity theft, what Kinsey doesn’t know is that Solana is a dangerous sociopath with an accomplice and a history of clients who died under her care. Kinsey works with other neighbors and friends to rescue Gus and expose the con-artist without rousing her suspicions, at the same time, Kinsey investigates a case of possible insurance fraud involving a student who drove into another car. The female passenger in the car had extensive injuries and she and her husband are suing the student. Kinsey must track down a reluctant witness and use her rather rough charm to get him to come forward, unlike previous books in this series, this book alternates between two perspectives, Kinseys and Solanas
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"V" Is for Vengeance
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The novel, set in 1988, was released in the United States in November 2011. For the fourth novel in the Kinsey Millhone series, the viewpoint alternates between Millhone and other characters, principally Nora Vogelsang and Lorenzo Dante. The opening chapter, however, is told from the perspective of a young man, Phillip Lanahan, who borrows money from Dante, misses the payback date. Dante and his brother Cappi show up, and Dante agrees to take Phillips Porsche as satisfaction of the debt, however, after Dante sends Phillip and Cappi up to look at the car, Cappi has thugs throw Phillip off the top of the parking garage to his death. In the main storyline, Millhone witnesses a woman shoplifting with a confederate inside Nordstroms and she tells a nearby clerk, who alerts store security, and they capture and arrest the woman, named Audrey, before she can escape. While this is going on, Millhone follows her confederate and is almost run over by her in the parking garage, right after her release from jail, Audrey apparently commits suicide. Priddy mocks the theory that Audrey was part of a shoplifting ring, meanwhile, Dante realizes that the police are closing in on his operation. Audrey had been head of his operation, but Cappi murdered her upon her release from jail because he believed she was about to turn them in. Dante believes that Cappi has been giving information to Priddy to set up his brother, Nora, who has been drifting apart from her husband for the last three years, learns that her lawyer husband is having an affair with his secretary. She decides to sell some jewelry to provide her with money to be able to leave her husband. She is referred to Dante, who is drawn to her. Against her better judgement she agrees to meet Dante, who fascinated by Nora. This leads her to the accomplice and she discovers after trailing her for several days that she is the drop off person who deposits stolen goods into a fake charitys drop off box. The bags are then picked up later by a truck that takes them to Dantes warehouse for distribution to various second hand stores around Southern California. When Kinsey gives Cheney a copy of her findings thus far and this, of course, causes her to do the exact opposite. She investigates further and slowly peels back the layers of the syndicate and her old friend Pinky Ford comes to her office and asks her to hold on to some photos for him. Later Lt. Priddy comes to the looking for the photos. She manages to track down Pinky and find out that the photos are blackmail material that Priddy has been using to get information from Pinky about Dantes operation, Pinky leaves Kinseys care and returns home
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Selective Service
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The Selective Service System is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription. A2010 GAO report estimated the rate at 92% with the names and addresses of over 16.2 million men on file. The Selective Service System provides the names of all registrants to the Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies program for inclusion in the JAMRS Consolidated Recruitment Database, the names are distributed to the Services for recruiting purposes on a quarterly basis. Regulations are codified at 32 C. F. R, owing to very slow enlistment following the U. S. The Act gave the President the power to men for military service. All men aged 21 to 30 were required to register for service for a service period of 12 months. As of mid-November 1917, all registrants were placed in one of five new classifications, Men in Class I were the first to be drafted, and men in lower classifications were deferred. Dependency deferments for registrants who were fathers or husbands were especially widespread, the age limit was later raised in August 1918 to a maximum age of 45. The military draft was discontinued in 1920, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the 76th United States Congress on September 16,1940, establishing the first peacetime conscription in United States history. It required all men between the ages of 18 to 64 to register with Selective Service and it originally conscripted all men aged 21 to 35 for a service period of 12 months. In 1941 the military service period was extended to 18 months, the Selective Service System created by the 1940 Act was terminated by the Act of March 31,1947. The Selective Service Act of 1948, enacted in June of that year, created a new and separate system, all men 18 years and older had to register with Selective Service. All men between the ages of 19 to 26 were eligible to be drafted for a requirement of 21 months. Conscripts could volunteer for service in the Regular Army for a term of four years or the Organized Reserves for a term of six years. Due to deep postwar budget cuts, only 100,000 conscripts were chosen in 1948, in 1950, the number of conscripts was greatly increased to meet the demands of the Korean War. The outbreak of the Korean War fostered the creation of the Universal Military Training and this lowered the draft age from 19 to 18 1⁄2, increased active-duty service time from 21 to 24 months, and set the statutory term of military service at a minimum of eight years. Students attending a college or training program full-time could request an exemption, a Universal Military Training clause was inserted that would have made all men obligated to perform 12 months of military service and training if the Act was amended by later legislation. Despite successive attempts over the several years, however, such legislation was never passed
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Draft evasion
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Draft evasion is an intentional decision not to comply with the military conscription policies of ones nation. Such practices that do not involve law breaking or which are based on conscientious objection are sometimes referred to as draft avoidance, refusing to submit to the draft is considered a criminal offense in most countries where conscription is in effect. Those who practice draft evasion are sometimes referred to as draft dodgers. It is possible to draw a contrast between draft evasion and draft avoidance, the Vietnam era version of Websters Unabridged Dictionary simply defined draft dodger as one who avoids military service regardless how it was done. Some means of draft avoidance, Being a conscientious objector, whether ones anti-war sentiment is religious or otherwise, note that many people who support conscription will distinguish between bona fide conscientious objection and draft dodging, which they view as evasion of military service without a valid excuse. Conscientious objection would be considered if the sentiment was not genuine. Seeking excusal from military service due to health reasons - this would be considered if the purported health issue was feigned or overstated. Seeking and receiving a student deferment and this would be considered evasion if false or misleading academic credentials were used. Some notable US figures avoided the draft as students, such as Bill Clinton, being employed in or applying for a job in an essential civilian occupation and seeking deferment on those grounds. Farmers are usually exempt as are individuals employed in related industries. Often this required a letter from the potential draftees employer to be accepted, after receiving deferment as a student,2008 U. S. Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani received further deferment after his occupation as a law clerk was deemed essential by the Selective Service, non-pacifist churches have at times deferred missionaries as divinity students. During the Vietnam War The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints became embroiled in controversy for deferring large numbers of its young members. The LDS church eventually agreed to cap the number of missionary deferments it sought for members in any one state, however and this cap was church wide in the United States and was not limited to Utah. Only two missionaries a year were allowed from each ward. Utah from receiving deferments with relative ease, simply declining to enlist, if the potential conscript appears likely to avoid the draft through sheer luck of the draw. Declining to enlist is not evasion, paying a stand-in to take ones place if drafted. In most countries this is no legally sanctioned, but it was a lawful. In some countries it is possible to evade military service by bribing corrupt draft officers
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times, commonly referred to as the Times or LA Times, is a paid daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008, the Times is owned by tronc. The Times was first published on December 4,1881, as the Los Angeles Daily Times under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr. and it was first printed at the Mirror printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and T. J. Unable to pay the bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the Times continued publication, in July 1882, Harrison Gray Otis moved from Santa Barbara to become the papers editor. Otis made the Times a financial success, in an era where newspapers were driven by party politics, the Times was directed at Republican readers. As was typical of newspapers of the time, the Times would sit on stories for several days, historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment. Otiss editorial policy was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles, the efforts of the Times to fight local unions led to the October 1,1910 bombing of its headquarters, killing twenty-one people. Two union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara, were charged, the American Federation of Labor hired noted trial attorney Clarence Darrow to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty. Upon Otiss death in 1917, his son-in-law, Harry Chandler, Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler, who ran the paper during the rapid growth of post-war Los Angeles. Family members are buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery near Paramount Studios, the site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims. The fourth generation of family publishers, Otis Chandler, held that position from 1960 to 1980, Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his familys paper, often forgotten in the power centers of the Northeastern United States due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nations most respected newspapers, notably The New York Times, believing that the newsroom was the heartbeat of the business, Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962, the paper joined with the Washington Post to form the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service to syndicate articles from both papers for news organizations. During the 1960s, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes, more than its previous nine decades combined, eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, thats the pattern followed over more than a century by the Los Angeles Times under the Chandler family. The papers early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history Thinking Big and it has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades. In 2000, the Tribune Company acquired the Times, placing the paper in co-ownership with then-WB -affiliated KTLA, which Tribune acquired in 1985
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Publishers Weekly
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Publishers Weekly is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, “The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling, with 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s, the publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, Publishers Weekly was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country, in 1878, Leypoldt sold The Publishers Weekly to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Eventually the publication expanded to include features and articles, harry Thurston Peck was the first editor-in-chief of The Bookman, which began in 1895. Peck worked on its staff from 1895 to 1906, and in 1895, in 1912, Publishers Weekly began to publish its own bestseller lists, patterned after the lists in The Bookman. These were not separated into fiction and non-fiction until 1917, when World War I brought an increased interest in non-fiction by the reading public. Born April 12,1879, in Malden, Massachusetts, Melcher began at age 16 in Bostons Estes & Lauriat Bookstore and he moved to Indianapolis in 1913 for another bookstore job. In 1918, he read in Publishers Weekly that the editorship was vacant. He applied to Richard Rogers Bowker for the job, was hired and he remained with R. R. Bowker for 45 years. While at Publishers Weekly, Melcher began creating space in the publication, in 1919, he teamed with Franklin K. Mathiews, librarian for the Boy Scouts of America, and Anne Carroll Moore, a librarian at the New York Public Library, to create Children’s Book Week. When Bowker died in 1933, Melcher succeeded him as president of the company, in 1943, Publishers Weekly created the Carey–Thomas Award for creative publishing, naming it in honor of Mathew Carey and Isaiah Thomas. In 2008, the circulation was 25,000. It attempts to serve all involved in the creation, production, marketing and sale of the word in book, audio, video. The book review section of Publishers Weekly was added in the early 1940s and grew in importance during the 20th century and through the present time. It currently offers prepublication reviews of 9,000 new trade books each year, in a range of genres and including audiobooks and e-books. These anonymous reviews are short, averaging 200–250 words, and it is not unusual for the section to run as long as 40 pages. In the past, a book review editorial staff of eight editors assigned books to more than 100 freelance reviewers, some are published authors, and others are experts in specific genres or subjects
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The Palm Beach Post
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The Palm Beach Post is an American daily newspaper serving Palm Beach County in South Florida, and the Treasure Coast area. As of 2012 it was the 80th largest daily newspaper in the United States, the Palm Beach Post began as The Palm Beach County, a weekly newspaper established in 1908. In January 1916, the became a daily, morning publication known as The Palm Beach Post. In 1934, Palm Beach businessman Edward R. Bradley bought The Palm Beach Post and The Palm Beach Times, in 1947, both were purchased by longtime resident John Holliday Perry, Sr. who owned a Florida newspaper chain of six dailies and 15 weeklies. In 1948, Perry purchased both the Palm Beach Daily News and the society magazine Palm Beach Life, in 1979, The Palm Beach Times was renamed The Evening Times. In 1987, The Evening Times merged with The Post to form a single newspaper, in 1989, all of neighboring sister publication Miami News assets and archives were merged with the Palm Beach Post upon the closure of that paper. In 1996, The Palm Beach Post sponsored Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Wendy Guey, Palm Beach Post photographer Dallas Kinney won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, Migration to Misery. Post photographers have subsequently been Pulitzer finalists three times, Editor Edward Sears won the Editor of the Year award in 2004 from Editor & Publisher. Sears led the Post newsroom from 1985-2005, the Palm Beach Post has over 750,000 daily readers in print and online each week. Palm Beach Newspapers Inc. continues to publish The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News, Florida Pennysaver and La Palma, each publication has a corresponding web site. The Post launched PBGametime. com, home for its coverage of Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast high school sports, like many newspapers throughout the country, the Post downsized its newsroom by more than 30 percent in 2008 and 2009. At the same time it closed its printing press, the Posts print edition is now printed in Broward County by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and shipped north to Palm Beach County for daily distribution. As of 2012, the Posts average daily circulation was slightly over 88,000, well below daily circulation figures of around 165,000 at the turn of the century and it is the 80th largest daily newspaper in the United States and the 7th largest in Florida. List of newspapers in Florida Miami portal Journalism portal Official website
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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump
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"A" Is for Alibi
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A Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Graftons debut mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet mystery series, first published in 1982. The novel is set in the fictional southern California city of Santa Teresa, grafton admits she conceived the story on her own fantasies of murdering her then husband while going through a divorce. The first printing of A Is for Alibi was 7,500 copies, a Is for Alibi features Kinsey Millhone,32, a private detective. She investigates the death of prominent divorce lawyer Laurence Fife and his murder eight years earlier was blamed on his wife, Nikki Fife, who upon being released from prison hires Kinsey to find the real murderer. In the course of the investigation Kinsey becomes involved with Charlie Scorsoni and she discovers Fifes death has been linked to that of a woman in Los Angeles, his law firms accountant, both died after taking poisonous oleander capsules which had been substituted for allergy pills. Kinsey tracks down the parents and former boyfriend. She then goes to Las Vegas to interview Fifes former secretary, Sharon Napier, back in California, Kinsey is mystified that Nikkis son, Colin, recognizes Laurences first wife, Gwen, in a photograph. Kinsey surmises that Gwen was having an affair with her ex-husband at the time of his death, shortly afterwards, she too is dead, killed in a hit-and-run crash. He used the method that Gwen used to kill Fife. In a final confrontation, he chases Kinsey across the beach, before he can kill her, she shoots him dead
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"B" Is for Burglar
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B Is for Burglar is the second novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Elaine was last seen getting into a cab with the intention of flying down to Boca Raton, Florida, where she spends her winters, but appears to have disappeared along the way. It seems a relatively straightforward matter, so much so that Kinsey is not sure Beverly needs a PI, but she agrees to take the case. Someone breaks into the home of Elaines Santa Teresa apartment supervisor, Tillie, someone also searches Kinseys apartment, and Kinsey realises it is Elaines passport which the thief is after. Kinsey reports the disappearance and meets Jonah Robb, a recently separated cop working on missing persons -, Kinsey becomes increasingly convinced that Elaine is dead, and that Pat Usher is involved. Pat has now disappeared, after trashing the Boca Raton apartment. Eventually, she discovers that Pat Usher has applied for a licence in Elaines name. Marty and her husband killed Elaine to steal her identity and her money and they then passed Elaines dead body off as Martys by switching the dental records. Marty departed for Florida as Elaine, and arrived as Pat Usher, having been unable to find Elaines passport, she and her husband have been forced to wait for a new one to come through before they can skip the country. Kinsey returns to the Grice home to look for the weapon, but while she is there. Marty Grice is shot in the arm during the fight that ensues. B Is for Burglar was awarded the 1986 Anthony Award for Best Novel at Bouchercon, the novel also won the 1986 Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America
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"C" Is for Corpse
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C Is for Corpse is the third novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel begins with Kinsey the gym, rehabilitating herself from injuries sustained at the end of B is for Burglar, there she meets Bobby Callahan, a twenty-three-year-old who was nearly killed when his car went off the road nine months before. Bobby is convinced that the accident, which killed his friend Rick, was an attempt on his life. He suspects that he may still be in danger, so he hires Kinsey to investigate and he cant even explain why he thinks someone wants to kill him. Kinsey takes the case despite little information, having taken a liking to Bobby and she meets his rich but dysfunctional family, Glen, his mother is an heiress on her third marriage to Derek Wenner, whose daughter Kitty is a 17-year-old drug-user seriously ill with anorexia. Glen has spared no expense in seeking treatment and counselling for Bobby, Ricks death, his own injuries, a few days later, Bobby dies in another car accident. Kinsey thinks this too is a murder attempt, however, Kinsey looks elsewhere for the solution, a friend of Bobbys gives her Bobbys address book, which shows Bobby searching for someone called Blackman. Bobbys former girlfriend thought Bobby ended their relationship because he was having an affair with someone else, the blackmailer has the gun with Nolas fingerprints on it. Trying to investigate further, Kinsey realises that Blackman is code for a corpse in the morgue. She finds the gun concealed in the corpse, however, while she is at the hospital, she finds the recently murdered body of the morgue assistant, and realises the killer is on her track at the hospital. It is Nolas current husband, Dr Fraker, a pathologist from the hospital, who is the blackmailer and killer. Bobby found out what Fraker was up to, but Fraker rigged the first car accident before he could do anything about it, Fraker traps Kinsey and gives her a disabling injection but she manages to cosh him and escapes to a phone to call the police. C Is for Corpse was awarded the 1987 Anthony Award for Best Novel at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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"D" Is for Deadbeat
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D Is for Deadbeat is the fourth novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel follows the development of Kinseys relationship with Jonah Robb, D is for Deadbeat begins as Kinsey receives a contract from ex-con Alvin Limardo to deliver a check for twenty-five thousand dollars to a fifteen-year-old boy named Tony Gahan. According to Limardo, Tony helped him through a time in his life. In her search to find Daggett and get her money back, Tonys been a wreck since the death of his family, rarely sleeping and doing poorly in school. He now lives with his uncle and aunt, Ramona and Ferrin Westfall, also killed in the accident was a friend of Tonys young sister, and a boy called Doug Polokowski, who had hitched a ride in the car. Kinsey tracks down a friend of Daggetts, Billy Polo, now living in a trailer park with his sister. Billy is the one who introduced Lovella to Daggett, Kinsey finds out that Doug Polokowski was Billy and Corals brother. Theres no shortage of people with a motive for Daggetts death, Kinsey discovers that shortly before his death Daggett was staggering about drunk at the marina in the company of a blonde woman in a green outfit. She sets out to discover which of the blonde women in the case might be the killer. The police investigating Billys murder discover a home-made silencer used in the killing, Kinsey immediately recognises the towelling used as padding as coming from the Westfall household, and Ramona jumps to the top of her suspect list. This means confronting Tony, who has given Ramona an alibi for the time of Daggetts death, in pursuing Tony, Kinsey realises Tony himself, dressed as a woman in his aunts wig, was actually the killer. He was also the one who stole her gun, and killed Billy Polo, who had recognised Tony at Daggetts funeral
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"E" Is for Evidence
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E Is for Evidence is the fifth novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. It is the shortest book in the series to date, the novels plot develops Kinseys personal back-story, as it features her second ex-husband, jazz musician and drug-user, Daniel Wade, previously mentioned briefly in C is for Corpse. In 2005, Grafton told an interviewer that she prefers to pick a title early in the process because that helps to direct her storytelling. For one book I had thought of E Is for Ever, I loved the play on words but I had to figure a better title. So I picked E Is for Evidence, if I know the title I can make sure the story Im telling is pertinent. The business in question, Wood/Warren, is owned and operated by the Wood family, company founder Linden Wood is dead, but his son Lance now runs the company, and his four other children, Ebony, Olive, Ash and Bass all have a stake. Ash is Kinseys former schoolmate, and Bass was an acquaintance of her second ex-husband, Olive is married to Terry Kohler, Lances second-in-command at the company. In the middle of protesting her innocence, the five dollar credit takes on a sinister significance. Temporarily suspended from California Fidelity, Kinsey takes up her own investigation to prove her innocence, darcys united with Kinsey in her dislike of claims manager Andy Motycka, who is Kinseys chief suspect in the set-up, although shes at a loss who he could be working for. Kinsey remains unconvinced by Lydas conviction that Lance was Hughs killer and her spirits are at a low ebb and its the worst possible moment for Daniel to show up, eight years after leaving without a word. Kinsey finds it hard it cope with but eventually agrees to store a guitar for him while he sorts himself out. On her way to a new party at Olive and Terrys home, Kinsey is almost killed when a bomb, disguised as a gift left on the doorstep. Olive is killed and Terry is badly injured and she discovers Daniel and Bass are lovers - Bass is the person Daniel left her for. Shortly afterwards, Kinsey finds Lyda Cases dead body in a car outside her apartment, unfortunately, Emms has anticipated her solving the case and is waiting at her apartment with another bomb. Before it explodes he explains he killed Hugh Case because Hugh had realised his true identity and he engineered the fire at Wood/Warren and set up Kinsey to get revenge on Lance, after Bass spilled the family incest secret to him. Kinsey manages to shoot Emms and disables him sufficiently to get out of the window just as the bomb explodes, killing Emms. After Daniel leaves with Bass, the loose end is the five thousand dollars Emms put in her account. The novel was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel
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"F" Is for Fugitive
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F Is for Fugitive is the sixth novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Grafton had originally planned to call the novel F Is for Forgery but decided during her research that forgery was too boring a crime. The sixth novel in the series sends Kinsey to Floral Beach, California, while back at home and she has been hired by Royce Fowler, who wants her to delve into the past to exonerate his son of the murder of Jean Timberlake, seventeen years before. Bailey, who had been a teen tearaway, pleaded guilty to killing Jean, his sometime girlfriend, hes apparently been living the life of a model citizen under an assumed name but has just been recaptured and is claiming his innocence. Kinsey heads to Floral Beach, a local community, to pursue the cold trail. She was pregnant at the time of her death, nobody seems convinced that the killer could be anyone but Bailey. At Baileys arraignment, Tap Granger stages a hold-up, allowing Bailey to escape once more, Kinsey gets confirmation from Taps widow that Tap was paid to do it - for the first time providing concrete evidence that someone wants to keep Bailey discredited. Kinseys room at the motel is broken into, and she receives threatening calls in the middle of the night as she pursues the case, Ori is murdered when her insulin, administered regularly by Ann, is tampered with. Kinsey eventually establishes that Dr Dunne is Jeans unknown father, Kinsey wonders whether Dwight could be the link between the two, having realized that Ann Fowler seems jealous of anyone who comes into contact with Dwight. She searches Anns room, and finds evidence that Ann supplied Tap with the hold-up gun, unfortunately, she also finds Ann waiting for her, armed with a shotgun. Jean had confided in her, as counselor, that Dwight was the father of the child. Motivated by jealousy, Ann killed her, and being equally jealous of her brothers position as favored child of their parents, Ann was happy to see him take the rap. Her plan is to use the shell eventually inherit from her parents to tempt Dwight, to whom she has been fanatically devoted for years. She killed her mother to hasten the plan along, and Shana because she was jealous of her friendship with Dwight. Before Ann can kill Kinsey, she is interrupted by Royce. Ann is arrested for the murders of Shana and Ori, and although theres insufficient evidence to prove her the killer of Jean as well, the circumstances are sufficient to ensure that Bailey is cleared
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"G" Is for Gumshoe
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G Is for Gumshoe is the seventh novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In G Is for Gumshoe, Kinsey Millhone meets fellow investigator Robert Dietz when someone hires a hit man to kill her. While Kinsey is being stalked, she uncovers a murder that haunts the lives of her client Mrs. Irene Gersh. In other developments in Kinseys personal story, she loses her VW car, after her first night in her new place, Kinsey heads out early the next day in search of Mrs Gershs mother, Agnes Grey, who lives in a trailer in the desert. Agnes,83 years old, hasnt exactly been a patient. Kinsey makes plans to home, but before she can do so. Kinsey recognises the driver as a man traveling with his young son she has seen a couple of times on the journey to the Slabs and she hires Robert Dietz, the PI who helped her briefly by phone in A is for Alibi, as a bodyguard. His vigilance initially frustrates Kinsey, used to making her own decisions, Dietz discovers the hitman is Mark Messinger, who absconded with his son, Eric, eight months previously. He arranges a meeting with the mother, Rochelle, who is desperate to get her son back. Irene suffers a panic reaction when she sees a tea set Kinsey found amongst her mothers possessions. Further anomalies occur when Irene tries to fill in the relating to the death, Kinsey realises that Irenes birth certificate is faked. Its Kinseys CFI colleague Darcy who points out Agnes Grey is the name of a novel by Anne Brontë and she tracks down a family called Bronfen who match the circumstances Agnes described, and surmises that the surviving brother of the family, Patrick, murdered Lottie and Emily. The three daughters were named for the Brontë sisters, which explains the alias Anne chose to use. Patrick faked Annes death in order to gain possession of the family property. Kinsey is convinced that Patrick is responsible for Agness death, to cover his past crimes, when she confronts Patrick, she is interrupted by Messinger, who kills Patrick. Dietz and Rochelle have managed to get Eric away from Messinger, as she drives Messinger to the airport at gunpoint to intercept Rochelle, Kinsey is convinced Messinger will kill them all. However, Rochelle outsmarts Messinger and kills him first, G Is for Gumshoe was honored with both the Private Eye Writers of Americas Shamus Award for best novel and Bouchercons 1991 Anthony Award for Best Novel. The reviewer for the School Library Journal considered the book oriented towards adults but to be suitable for adults as well
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"H" Is for Homicide
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H Is for Homicide is the eighth novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In H Is for Homicide, Kinsey Millhone goes under cover to break up an insurance fraud ring in Los Angeles led by Raymond Maldonado. She infiltrates the ring by befriending Maldonados former girlfriend Bibianna Diaz, in the process she meets up with a former school mate and ex cop, Jimmy Tate. With a first printing of 170,000 copies, this earned a place on the New York Times hard-cover best-seller list just two weeks after initial publication. First, a recent employee and friend of Kinseys, Parnell Perkins, is shot and killed -, second, in the wake of poor profit figures, company troubleshooter Gordon Titus arrives to shake things up. The informal arrangement with Kinsey seems high on his list of targets, in the new mood of nervous efficiency prevalent at CFI pending Tituss arrival, Kinsey is passed the claim file of Bibianna Diaz to investigate for possible fraud. Bibianna has problems too, it seems, her former boyfriend Raymond Montanaldo, of whom she is - rightly as it turns out - terrified, is the jealous type, and is hunting her down. Kinsey realises that a CFI colleague has inadvertently given away information on Bibianna to Raymonds gang, Raymonds brother Chago and his girlfriend Dawna accost Bibianna, and in the fracas which ensues Tate shoots and kills Chago. Bibianna is taken into custody with Kinsey deliberately sticking to her in order to cement their relationship, Kinsey withdraws her initial gut refusal when Dolan tells her Raymond killed Parnell, but they have been stalling the murder investigation in order not to jeopardize the longstanding fraud case. Kinsey agrees to help out of a sense of duty to Parnell, thus begins a dangerous and stifling few days for Kinsey, undercover and up to her neck in a criminal ring headed by a deluded killer. Raymond effectively keeps both Kinsey and Bibianna under house arrest in Los Angeles, with the aid of his second in command, Raymond cant accept Bibiannas rejection of him and is determined to force her into marriage. The snag in the plan, which Bibianna doesnt dare confess, is that she has actually just married Tate, matters come to a head when Bibianna escapes, and is pursued almost to her death by one of Raymonds henchmen. Visiting her in hospital, the doctor inadvertently lets slip to Raymond that Bibiannas next of kin is her husband, Kinsey sets off in hot pursuit and receives unexpected help from Luis, who turns out to be an undercover LAPD cop. Kinsey makes it back to Santa Teresa in the nick of time for her friend Vera Liptons wedding, both Bibianna and Tate survive, but despite her success in wrapping up the insurance fraud claim, Gordon Titus fires Kinsey from CFI. Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay, G Is for Grafton, The World of Kinsey Millhone
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"I" Is for Innocent
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I Is for Innocent is the ninth novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Now Isabelles previous husband, Kenneth Voigt, is trying again in the courts, in an attempt to secure the fortune for his and Isabelles daughter Shelby. The previous PI on the case, Morley Shine, has just died of a heart attack, Kinsey agrees, and knowing Morley of old, is surprised to find his files in a mess, with crucial witness statements missing. One new witness has come forward, Curtis MacIntyre, a habitual jailbird who shared a cell with Barney for a night, Kinsey is very doubtful of this story, especially when she finds out Curtis was in custody on another matter on the date in question. Kinsey tracks down both the driver - Tippy, the daughter of Isabelles best friend Rhe Parsons - and a witness who can swear that Barney was knocked down by her and she realises Morley was on the same track, and begins to have suspicions about his death. She eventually establishes that Morley was poisoned by a left at his office made with lethal mushrooms. She also finds out that Kenneth Voigt has been paying Curtis expense money for years, Curtis comes up with an alternative story, the confession was actually made some time after the acquittal during a drunken evening at Barneys home. This sounds even more unlikely to Kinseys sceptical ears, meanwhile, at home, her octogenarian landlord, Henry Pitts, is entertaining his hypochondriac elder brother, William, for a visit. Rosie charms William with her acceptance of his imagined illnesses, back on the case, Kinsey has a sudden flash of inspiration looking at the time gap between Tippy killing Mr McKell and knocking down Barney. Tippy admits that, panic-stricken after the first accident, she went to confess what shed done to her aunt Isabelle, Kinseys train of thought is interrupted by a call from Curtis, asking her to meet him at the bird refuge. He sounds terrified, and Kinsey suspects he has taken hostage. She arranges for Jonah, her ex-boyfriend cop, to provide back-up, Barney has anticipated that she would do this and is waiting for her, along with Curtiss corpse. Kinseys prized Volkswagen Beetle, a mirror of the one author Sue Grafton owns in real life, is destroyed in this novel. In the 2006 film Stranger than Fiction, the character Professor Jules Hilbert is shown reading a copy of I Is for Innocent while on lifeguard duty
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"J" Is for Judgment
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J Is for Judgment is the tenth novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel features a significant development in Kinseys personal back-story, as she discovers that she has family living in the Lompoc area. July 1984 contains two surprises for Kinsey Millhone in the tenth of the Alphabet murder series, both connected to her past. Secondly, in the course of the investigation, Kinsey makes a discovery about her own past when she discovers she has a family she knew nothing about. The case Mac hires Kinsey to investigate is that of Wendell Jaffe, assumed to have died five years previously when his boat, the Captain Stanley Lord, was found drifting off the Baja coast. He left behind a note, a whole bunch of creditors who had invested in what turned out to be a Ponzi scheme, and a family, wife Dana. Michael, now 22, has coped reasonably well with suddenly being the man of the house, eighteen-year-old Brian on the other hand is in a mess, currently residing in juvenile hall. Two months after the money was finally paid, a former colleague of Macs has spotted a man he is convinced is Jaffe in Viento Negro. Mac hires Kinsey to go there and check it out, Kinsey is convinced Wendell will be heading back to California to reconnect with his son. Doing a door-to-door back in California, Kinsey is astonished to be asked if she is related to the Burton Kinsey family of Lompoc, Kinsey denies the connection, but undertakes a little detective work on her behalf and is amazed to find her mothers father was indeed Burton Kinsey. Far from being family-less, Kinsey has cousins, aunts and a grandmother living less than an hour away and her cousin Liza shows up to tell her the family scandal, Kinseys mother was cut off from her family for marrying Kinseys father. Kinsey is aghast that no one has tried to track her down in the 29 years since her parents were killed and is resentful of any intrusion into her solitude at this late date. Her thoughts are dragged back to the case at hand when through an apparent police clerical error, Kinsey is certain Wendell has engineered it, and is planning to slip through her fingers again with Brian. Renata catches Kinsey red-handed searching on her property but when Kinsey turns the tables on her, at last, Kinsey has tracked Jaffe down, but her success is short-lived when someone takes potshots at them both, and Wendell escapes once more. Nevertheless, its enough for CFI, Kinsey has proved Jaffe didnt die and she wants the truth, and is prepared to pursue it on her own time. She finds Brian, and also finds out from Eckert that there was three dollars from their fraudulent business scheme on board the missing boat. Renata confesses that she killed Wendell, dumped his body at sea and then set the Lord adrift and she then wades out into the sea to kill herself, and Kinsey is unable to stop her. Renatas story is confirmed when Jaffes body washes up on the shore
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"K" Is for Killer
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K Is for Killer is the 11th novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel was a New York Times bestseller with a reported 600, vice cop Cheney Phillips is introduced in this novel. In the eleventh of the Alphabet Murder series, Kinsey Millhone is hired by Janice Kepler to investigate the death of her daughter, Lorna had been found dead and badly decomposed ten months earlier in her lonely cabin home. Now someone has sent Janice a tape of a porn movie Lorna apparently made before her death, and Janice, Lorna was a beautiful loner, but had some friends - mainly people who like her tended to be up and about at night. Kinsey finds herself having to abandon her usual day-time routine in order to get herself into Lornas world, Lornas body was found by Serena Bonney, night-shift nurse and estranged wife of Lornas boss at the water treatment plant, Roger Bonney. Serenas father, Clark Esselmann, is a business tycoon with a number of enemies. She also befriends Danielle, a colleague of Lornas in her night-time occupation. When Danielle is savagely attacked in her home, Kinsey becomes convinced theres a link to Lornas death, meanwhile, Kinsey has a terrifying Mafia-style encounter with a man describing himself as an attorney for a Los Angeles man to whom Lorna was engaged. He asks Kinsey to keep him abreast of any developments in the case by giving her a telephone number. Kinsey soon uncovers a variety of secrets, Berlyn actually discovered Lornas body, but kept quiet about in order to some of Lornas money. Leda had bugged Lornas cabin because she was worried that Lorna and JD were having an affair - and still has the tape. Kinsey realises that the conversation on the tape is someone telling Lorna the plot - and surmises that having objected to it and he is also the one with the necessary knowledge and access to his father-in-laws pool to have set up the electrocution. The final link in the chain is when Kinsey, in the course of cleaning up Danielles trashed apartment while still in hospital, finds a photo of Lorna and Danielle with Stockton. Kinsey talks to Cheney about her suspicions of Roger, but he points out theres no evidence, frustrated that Bonney may get away with murder, the final straw is when Danielle dies in hospital. Kinsey phones the number and reports that Bonney is the killer. Overcome with guilt, she tries to warn him, but he misunderstands, thinking she has come to confront him with the murder. While Kinsey lies powerless on the floor, the Mafia types arrive, K Is for Killer was awarded the 1995 Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America and was nominated for the 1995 Anthony Award in the same category
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"M" Is for Malice
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M Is for Malice is the 13th novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In January 1986, Tasha Howard hires her cousin Kinsey Millhone to find an heir of the wealthy Malek family and his unlikeable brothers do not want him back in their lives, nor want him splitting the inherited millions. Kinsey sympethizes with the story of Guys exile from his family as she struggles to deal with her own family troubles, with illicit help from Darcy Pascoe, a friend at California Fedelity Insurance, Kinsey tracks Guy to the small town of Marcella near Santa Teresa. After being rescued by local pastor Peter Antle and his wife Winnie, Guy has become a devout Christian, Kinsey finds him the nicest of the Malek boys. Despite Kinseys warnings, Guy agrees to return to his childhood home, Kinseys worst fears for Guy are exceeded when he is found brutally bludgeoned to death at the family home. Feeling guilty for his death, Kinsey tries to find his killer, at the same time, Kinsey deals with her own personal problems, including the reappearance of Robert Dietz, a private investigator ex. We also learn that Kinseys ex-boyfriend Jonah Robb, the officer on Guys death, is back with his wife Camilla. Eventually Kinsey and Dietz resume their relationship, albeit on a transient basis, initial physical evidence implicates Jack Malek in Guys murder, and his attorney, Lonnie Kingman, hires Kinsey to investigate further for Jacks defense. Kinsey believes the crimes motive lies in the past, but cant reconcile Guys misdemeanors with the character of the man she knew, Kinsey discovers that Bennet and his university friend Paul Trasatti completed the crime under the name Maxwell Outhwaite. She also connects the name to the murder to the Maddison situation, but since Mrs Maddison, her sister Claire and other family have died, Dietz discovers that the story of Claires death has been faked. Meanwhile, Enid reports that Myrna has disappeared from the Malek home in circumstances suggestive of foul play, Kinsey realises that Myrna is actually Claire, having bided her time to get revenge on the Malek family and Guy in particular. Claire tries to escape on foot but Kinsey catches her and confronts her that she killed the wrong brother, after confessing to destroying the will which disinherited Guy, and to the murder itself, Claire commits suicide. In a post-script, Kinsey explains that Tasha used a note Guy wrote to Kinsey as evidence of testamentary to ensure his share of the Malek millions goes to Peter, the book ends with Kinsey reconciling herself with her grief at losing Guy and dead parents and aunt
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"N" Is for Noose
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The novel was a New York Times best-seller. Through much of the novel there is a feeling of both physical and metaphorical cold as Kinsey tries to cope with being out of her Santa Teresa comfort zone. When she also finds out one of Ritters daughters, Margaret, worked for Tom at the sheriffs department. It was the realisation that Brant had committed murder, and that Brant had found Toth through him, despite being unwittingly drugged by Brant in a final showdown, Kinsey manages to subdue him, much to Selmas horror
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"O" Is for Outlaw
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O Is for Outlaw is the 15th novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Kinsey’s curiosity is roused when she receives a call from a man who has some of her possessions at an auction of defaulted storage locker items. Mickey had asked her to him a false alibi when he was accused of violence against a recently returned Vietnam veteran Benny Quintero. Kinsey refused to lie, assuming his guilt, and left him, as well as high school and police academy memories, she finds in the box a letter written to her 14 years before, shortly after she left Mickey, which never reached her. It’s from Dixie Hightower, barmaid at an old haunt from that era called the Honky-Tonk, whilst shocked to find out her husband was cheating, Kinsey realises she did Mickey an injustice thinking he killed Benny and sets out to find out what has happened to him. Kinsey finds out Mickey had been frequenting the Honky-Tonk and is suspicious of his motives and she also contacts Mark Bethel, Mickey’s lawyer on the Quintero manslaughter charge, another veteran now running for political office. Two LAPD officers shock Kinsey with the news that Mickey is in a coma, having been shot with a gun registered to her, Duffy, a habitual criminal, turns out to be Benny Quintero’s half brother, and like his brother, hails originally from Louisville. Clearly he and Mickey shared an interest in finding the truth about Benny’s death, from Duffy, Kinsey learns that Mickey was interested in Benny’s connections to a young Louisville journalist called Duncan Oaks, who was killed in Vietnam. Kinsey follows Mickey’s trail to Louisville and she discovers that Oaks was injured in Vietnam but disappeared in transit for medical treatment, and also that he was a classmate of Mark Bethel’s wife Laddie. She deduces that Duncan and Laddie had some sort of affair, back in Santa Teresa, the LAPD detectives reappear and confirm they have traced Bethel’s fingerprints in Mickey’s apartment, searching for the missing press pass, and suspect him of shooting Mickey. They compare notes and conclude that Bethel must have pushed Oaks out of the medical helicopter, when Quintero headed for California after the war and presumably tried to blackmail Bethel, Bethel killed him and set Mickey up to take the rap. Years later when Mickey finally uncovered the truth, Bethel shot him, Kinsey is reluctantly persuaded by the detectives to attempt to trap Bethel into a confession, an operation which goes badly wrong, and she ends up a target. However Duffy, now understanding Bethel to be the one responsible for his brother’s death, decapitates Bethel with a digger, meanwhile Kinsey has uncovered the truth at the Honky-Tonk, it is being used to manufacture fake IDs, as Mickey had discovered. She reports the scam, and having exonerated Mickey on all fronts, is with him when he dies without regaining consciousness
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"P" Is for Peril
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P Is for Peril is the 16th novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels. The novel is set in 1986, on 12 September 1986, wealthy and respected Santa Teresa doctor Dowan Purcell disappeared. In contrast, Crystal, a former stripper Dow met on a trip to Las Vegas, is convinced he is dead, not impressed either with Fionas personality or the chances of turning up something on a cold trail, Kinsey accepts the case with some misgivings. Kinsey meets an old acquaintance in the form of Dana Glaser, formerly Dana Jaffe, now married to wealthy businessman Joel Glaser, co-director of the management company which owns Pacific Meadows. By coincidence, Kinseys landlord Henry adds to the evidence of fraud when sorting through the finances of Rosies recently deceased sister, Klothilde, who had stayed at Pacific Meadows. In a sub-plot, Kinsey has decided its time to leave her current rented office space at Kingman and Ives, Kinsey is in a dilemma, ultimately Henry carries out the entrapment himself to protect Kinsey after failing to persuade her to steer clear of it. Meanwhile, Kinsey has become embroiled in Purcells complex family, when the car is pulled out, Dows body is in it. Kinsey has technically done her duty to Fiona, but she wants to know how. She finds that Leila was behind the missing thirty thousand dollars, Kinsey establishes that it is Joel Glaser and his business partner who are responsible for the Pacific Meadows fraud, Dow Purcell had uncovered it. They arent the killers, however, a hole at Crystals property implicates her. In the absence of Kinseys usual explanatory epilogue, the motive is implied to be because Crystal is actually in a relationship with Leilas school counsellor, Anica
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"Q" Is for Quarry
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Q Is for Quarry is the 17th novel in Sue Graftons Alphabet series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Though the book is a work of fiction, it is based on a homicide that occurred in Santa Barbara County. A Jane Doe victim had been dumped near a quarry in Lompoc, California, at a dinner party, Sue Grafton had a conversation with Dr. Robert Failing, who mentioned the case. He is the forensic pathologist who worked for the Coroners Office which had retained her maxilla, the victim was never identified, and never associated with any known missing persons case. It was hoped that the publicity generated by the book, would help turn up additional leads. The Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office is still hoping to find additional leads, and has the images of the facial reconstruction on their page
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"W" Is for Wasted
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The novel finds Kinsey investigating the deaths of a local private investigator and an unidentified homeless man. The novel was published in September 2013 by G. P, the name of each upcoming book has been an ongoing source of speculation among fans and in the press. Of the 5,700 fans who participated in a guess the title contest on Graftons website, the title was revealed on May 1,2013, in an interview with USA Today. Grafton explained that several meanings of Wasted apply to the novel, including out of it on drugs, sue Graftons Alphabet Series official site
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X (novel)
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The novel, set in the late 1980s, finds Kinsey pursuing a sociopathic serial killer. The novel, was published by G. P, putnams Sons, was released in the United States on August 25,2015. The name of each upcoming book has been a source of speculation among fans. When asked about the title of book 24 in September 2013, ive checked the penal codes in most states and xylophone isnt a crime, so Im stuck. In April 2015, she revealed that this breaks the pattern of the preceding 23 books, omitting the is for. Sue Graftons Alphabet Series official site
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Keziah Dane
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Keziah Dane is a 1967 novel by Sue Grafton. A work of fiction, this novel was published by Grafton when she was 27 years old. This is one of only two Sue Grafton novels published before her more famous Alphabet series of mystery novels and this is the fourth novel Grafton wrote but the first one published. Originally written under the title The Seventh Day of Keziah Dane, the novel did not win, but it drew a publication offer from a British publisher which Grafton used to get an agent who got the book an American publisher, Macmillan. Keziah Dane is a widow who lives on the brink of poverty with her children in a small Kentucky town and she lost her husband in a flood that also devastated their town. A vagrant named Web gains Keziahs trust then attempts to rape her eldest daughter, the daughter fends off the attack but kills Web in the process. The body is dumped in the town and unexpected complications ensue for the Dane family. Contemporary reaction was positive with featured reviews in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, reviewer Marjorie Driscoll noted that Grafton presented her widely varied array of characters in a sympathetic and understanding story while displaying her versatility by making them all very real
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The Lolly-Madonna War
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The Lolly-Madonna War is a 1969 novel by Sue Grafton. This is the fifth novel Grafton wrote but the one published. A work of fiction, this novel was published by Peter Owen Publishers when Grafton was 29 years old. This is one of only two Sue Grafton novels published before her more famous Alphabet series of mystery novels, the novel was originally published in the United Kingdom and never saw publication in the United States. The screenplay was co-written by Rodney Carr-Smith and Sue Grafton, the film stars Rod Steiger as Laban Feather, Robert Ryan as Pap Gutshall, Jeff Bridges as Zack Feather, Season Hubley as Roonie Gill, Randy Quaid as Finch Feather, and Gary Busey as Zeb
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Lolly-Madonna XXX
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Lolly-Madonna XXX is a 1973 film directed by Richard C. The film was co-written by Rodney Carr-Smith and Sue Grafton, based on the novel The Lolly-Madonna War by Grafton, the movie was filmed in rural Union County, Tennessee. Two families in rural Tennessee, headed by patriarchs Laban Feather, the sons of the two families play harmless tricks on each other but soon the Feather boys decide to kidnap a girl, escalating the rivalry. She turns out to be innocent bystander Roonie Gill, not the made-up girlfriend Lolly Madonna, as events escalate, Zack Feather and Roonie fall in love and try to bring the others to their senses. The two families kill one another, until only the patriarchs are left. A real find for lovers of 70s moviemaking
