The Alphabet Ends with Y

Several years ago, I bought a copy of the late Sue Grafton’s Y Is for Yesterday, and I recently got around to reading it (many years before, I had read another of the Alphabet mysteries, I forget which). Ms Grafton dedicated the book to her grandchildren, hoping that they would lead lives of integrity; from the contents of the novel, she seems to have been quite concerned with integrity and other virtues, without being under any delusion that they are universally practiced.

Y Is for Yesterday is a quite competently written mystery, and further displays considerable psychological insight and lively style. There are multiple wrongdoers, of various kinds and to various degrees, and if perfect justice is not done by the end, it is difficult to imagine how it could be. Things could be much worse, and at least the citizens of Santa Teresa, California are safe from one killer.

Someday, when I don’t have so much work to do and so much else to read, I ought to find a copy of A Is for Alibi, and proceed from there.

The Red Queen’s Race

This week, I got three items on my Expedited docket, one of them an amendment, and the other two being two iterations of an allowed case, with minor corrections being required. I dealt with all of these, and also with the one amendment which I had on my Amended docket, so I am currently down to zero amendments of any kind; my Amended and Expedited dockets are empty.

Two Requests for Continued Examination showed up on my Regular New docket this week, which is unusual. I finished an Office Action on my oldest non-RCE Regular New, and then on the first of RCEs to appear. It’s been a productive week.