It’s the birthday of bestselling author Sue Grafton (1940-2017), whose mystery series begins with A Is for Alibi (1982) and ends with Y Is for Yesterday (2017). The novels feature oft-divorced detective Kinsey Millhone, who says early in the first novel, “The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my [...]
It’s the birthday of Robert Bloch (1917-1994), best known for ruining so many showers for so many people as the author of the novel Psycho (1959), made into the eponymous Hitchcock film in 1960. Bloch wrote everything from mysteries to humor to horror, was one of the first to explore the minds of serial killers [...]
It’s the birthday of best-selling mystery author Martha Grimes (b. 1931), known for putting the blood and sex into traditional British mysteries featuring “quaint villages with quirky murders and an urbane detective…” (Neely Tucker, “Martha Grimes named ‘Grand Master’ of mystery writers,” Washington Post, May 4, 2012). Her most famous series stars Richard Jury of [...]