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C.W. Grafton

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C.W. Grafton


Born
in The United States
June 16, 1909

Died
January 31, 1982

Genre
Fiction, Crime, Mystery


Cornelius Warren ("Chip") Grafton (June 16, 1909 – January 31, 1982)[1] 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 a municipal bond attorney in Louisville, Kentucky.[2]

He is the father of author Sue Grafton.
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. (A partial manuscript of a third novel, The Butcher Began to Kill the Ox, is known to ex ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 451 ratings · 106 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope
3.81 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1943 — 16 editions
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
3.58 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1950 — 10 editions
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The Rope Began to Hang the ...
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1944 — 11 editions
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