I finally found the 'beginning' of Sue Grafton's alphabet so I could get in on this series from the start. I found 'Alibi' to be a refreshing change from some of the more recent crime novels I've read. The plot was straight out of '40s 'detective noir', and the'hard boiled PI' genre is usually more entertaining than the 'police procedurals' or 'amateur sleuth' stories I usually read.
Kinsey Millhone may not be the most likable private eye, and 'Alibi' isn't the most exciting story, but I found her interesting enough to want to read more books in this series.

This book was a definate page turner. A book that had drama, suspence and mystery all rolled into one. I couldn't believe the ending! Just when I thought I had it all figured out.. Recommend this book, A great start for the Grafton Series.

Just a brief comment on a glaring error that I was amazed found its way past the editors. At one point, protagonist Kinsey Millhone makes a phone call and is answered by a receptionist who asks, "Who shall I say is calling?". Grafton mentions how Millhone is often annoyed by this grammatical error, thinking it should be 'Whom shall I say is calling?'. Ironically, the receptionist is correct. 'Who' is correct, not 'whom' because the pronoun it stands for is not the object of 'say'. The quickest way to see this is to consider a possible answer to the question with a pronoun that inflects--the answer would be 'I shall say she is calling' not 'I shall say her is calling'. While yes, it could be argued that Grafton wanted to characterize her protagonist as being fussy yet misguided about proper speech, somehow I find it very difficult to believe that the error is not Grafton's own!