Word: alibis
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...Saturday than on Friday. Only Avatar dipped, by 5%. And, whatever the weather, the overall box office was up a spectacular 58% from the same weekend last year, leading the 2009 tally past the $10 billion mark for the first year ever. So what do we call the alibi for Avatar's Saturday drop? A snow...
Mystery writer Sue Grafton has one of the most recognizable trademarks in fiction: the books in her series, from A Is for Alibi in 1982 to her new book, U Is for Undertow, are all named after a letter of the alphabet. That formula regularly takes Grafton's books to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, and Undertow is no exception. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs talked with the prolific author about the ABCs of writing crime novels during her recent visit to New York City...
...written, so I have a record of the gender of every killer, the gender of the victim, the motive for the crime and the nature of the climax - how does the book end? I also have a series of log lines for each book. In A Is for Alibi, Kinsey Milhone is hired to prove the innocence of a woman just out of prison for the murder of her husband. In B Is for Burglar, Kinsey Milhone is hired to find and get a signature on a minor document. So I know the setup for each book, and when...
...being still in control of our own destiny in the league, we still made too many mistakes,” Murphy said. “We play like a young team sometimes, and we can get away with that maybe in the first couple of games as an alibi, but there’s no excuses for it. We’ve got to tighten things up. We’ve got a long way to go as far as I’m concerned...
...VICTIM; HOW MANY KILLERS? 1 Meredith Kercher, 21, was killed Nov. 1, 2007 2 Raffaele Sollecito began dating Knox two weeks before the murder 3 Rudy Guede admitted to having sex with Kercher and was convicted of murder 4 Patrick Lumumba, named in Knox's confession, had an airtight alibi...