Sue Grafton

Writing

Sue Grafton

Born — Died

1940-04-24 — 2017-12-28

Place of birth

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.).

Known for

Behind the camera

Sparkling Cyanide poster
6.0

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.

Sparkling Cyanide

1983

Lolly-Madonna XXX poster
5.9

In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.

Lolly-Madonna XXX

1973

Love on the Run poster
5.0

A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her new lover — a convict she had as a client and whom she helped escape from prison.

Love on the Run

1985

A Caribbean Mystery poster
6.2

While Miss Marple is on vacation in a luxurious Caribbean resort, a fellow guest confides he has evidence that another resident of the hotel is an unscrupulous serial murderer but is poisoned before he can reveal his identity to her.

A Caribbean Mystery

1983

Walking Through the Fire poster
5.5

A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the treatment can endanger the life of her unborn baby, as well as herself.

Walking Through the Fire

1979

Tonight's the Night poster
3.8

The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate in the erotic of the night.

Tonight's the Night

1987

Nurse poster
8.0

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.

Nurse

1980

Sex and the Single Parent poster
10.0

Two attractive divorcees find that their newly realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.

Sex and the Single Parent

1979