RIP Sue Grafton

[lovecraft68]

Author Sue Grafton, famous for her alphabet series has died at the age of 77.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/29/famed-mystery-author-sue-grafton-dead-at-77/

A is for Alibi is the first flat out detective novel I ever read and it was excellent. Kinsey Millhone was a solid take no shit female lead that is vastly under rated when people talk about 'feminist' heroins. Her and her "One smart black dress' that she owned

Z for Zero was scheduled for 2019, her daughter said there will be no ghost writers finishing it so the alphabet ends in Y.

Grafton was adamant her books never be adapted to movies or TV, which was too bad because I think they would have been a success.

 

[Carnevil9]

Grafton was adamant her books never be adapted to movies or TV......

Her heirs may just rethink that decision.....

 

[lovecraft68]

Her heirs may just rethink that decision.....

According to the daughter she'll uphold that....however if someone comes sniffing around with a good offer it could become "Mom would have wanted me to have even more money!"

 

[jaF0]

At least THIS thread explains a little instead of nothing at all.

 

[JackLuis]

US crime novelist Sue Grafton dies of cancer

The first, “A is for Alibi,” was published in 1982. The books have been translated into 26 languages and regularly topped best seller lists in the United States.

Grafton was praised for her wit and her characters. She won numerous honors for her work including from the British Crime Writers’ Association and the Mystery Writers of America.

I first read her "A is for Alibi" in a Chinese hotel in about '90. There were few English book in the book store as I was negotiating with the new Free Market Communists.

That got me hooked on her books. I got up to about K or M before I lost track of her.

RIP Sue.

 

[sr71plt]

US crime novelist Sue Grafton dies of cancer



I first read her "A is for Alibi" in a Chinese hotel in about '90. There were few English book in the book store as I was negotiating with the new Free Market Communists.

That got me hooked on her books. I got up to about K or M before I lost track of her.

RIP Sue.

I think I've read all of them. Not necessarily in order, because, as you note, when you're moving around the world in the decades before Amazon, you didn't always have a good source for English-language books. But I kept a list of her books (as I do for some other authors) and think I've gotten them all except for when Y goes to paperback. She was a good read when I needed something uncomplicated and a bit breezy to balance the rest of what was going on in my life.

 

[litfan10]

She was a class act and wonderfully fun writer.

She spent well over a decade at the start of her career writing screen plays for TV and movies including many hits, though I don't recall any of them. She later said how she hated stripping away any and everything from the original at the whims of money focused film houses and vowed it would never happen to her.

This cured her of working with Hollywood ever again and why she was so adamant about not releasing her works as movies or TV shows.

I also remember in an interview she mentioned that she promised that she would come back and haunt her family if they ever sold the rights to her works for films.