Sue Grafton A is for Alibi HB DJ 1st Edition 1st Printing 1982

COLLECTIBLE SCARCE AS NEW FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING dust jacket hardcover, with complete number line intact; in protective plastic; jacket NOT price clipped;  clean NEW text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; clean pastedown bookplate of previous owner on endpaper; in VERY GOOD original dust jacket; WE SHIP FAST.  This is the first title in the Kinsey Milhone series, and is the book that put Grafton on the map. Tough and liberated but not too loud about it, Kinsey is grand company as she re-investigates an old case: eight years ago womanizing divorce lawyer Laurence Fife was poisoned, second wife Nikki was convicted, but now Nikki is out of jail and wants Kinsey to find the real murderer. The main new lead: Laurence's death was shortly followed, it turns out, by the similar fatal poisoning of accountant Libby Glass, who did work for Laurence and partner Charlie Scorsoni. Was Laurence having an affair with Libby? So it seems. But Kinsey leaves no suspect un-suspected: she talks to Laurence's first wife; to the grown kids from that first marriage; to Libby's ex-colleagues, sad parents, and surly old boyfriend; to Laurence's former secretary Sharon, now a dealer in Vegas (who's murdered just before Telling All); to sexy Charlie — whom Kinsey is in bed with fairly soon. The suspects are a consistently interesting group, many of whom work (grooming dogs, sewing, laying bricks) while they talk— a simple but beguiling added texture. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 8 12 836