My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed, bonded, insure
d; white, female, age thirty-two, unmarried, and physically fit. That Monday mor
ning, I was sitting in my office with my feet up, wondering what life would brin
g, when a woman walked in and tossed a photograph on my desk.
'Somebody killed m
y husband.' Thirty one years since A is for Alibi was first published, Sue Graft
on presents Kinsey and Me, her first compendium of short stories. It features ni
ne Kinsey Millhone short stories, each a gem of detection, as well as autobiogra
phical pieces written in the decade after Grafton's mother died. Together, they
show just how much Kinsey Millhone is a distillation of her creator's past, even
as they reveal a child who, free of parental discipline, read everything and ro
amed everywhere.
