C. W. Grafton

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Cornelius Warren ("Chip") Grafton (1909 – 1982) was an American crime novelist. He was born and raised in China, where his parents were working as missionaries. He was educated in Clinton, South Carolina, studying law and journalism, and became an attorney in Louisville, Kentucky.

The hero of his first two mystery novels (The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope and The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher) was a lawyer named Gilmore Henry. Using the first two lines of a nursery rhyme as the titles of his first two novels suggested that other Gilmore Henry novels would follow, but none did and Henry did not appear in Grafton's two subsequent novels. The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope won the 1943 Mary Roberts Reinhart Award.^[1]

Grafton was married to Vivian Harnsberger. Their daughter, Sue Grafton, is also a writer and is famous for her "Alphabet Series" crime novels. C. W. Grafton died four months before the publication of "A" Is for Alibi.

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• The Rat Began To Gnaw The Rope (1943)
• The Rope Began To Hang The Butcher (1944)
• My Name Is Christopher Nagel (1947)
• Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1950)

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v • d • e Sue Grafton Alphabet novels "A" Is for Alibi • "B" Is for Burglar • "C" Is for Corpse • "D" Is for Deadbeat • "E" Is for Evidence • "F" Is for Fugitive • "G" Is for Gumshoe • "H" Is for Homicide • "I" Is for Innocent • "J" Is for Judgment • "K" Is for Killer • "L" Is for Lawless • "M" Is for Malice • "N" Is for Noose • "O" Is for Outlaw • "P" Is for Peril • "Q" Is for Quarry • "R" Is for Ricochet • "S" Is for Silence • "T" Is for Trespass Related articles C. W. Grafton • Kinsey Millhone • Santa Teresa, California • Kinsey and Me Other novels Keziah Dane • The Lolly-Madonna War