{"id":2215,"date":"2011-05-16T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:07:36","slug":"1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/05\/16\/1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 130 – 1990: \u201cG\u201d Is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1990\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to be Sherlock Holmes to understand why students might need a break from the rigors of an MIT education. For many decades, the Libraries\u2019 collection of detective fiction has served to provide that escape. Before the Internet, before there was a television in every dorm room, students here at \u201cTech\u201d would curl up with some lighthearted prose for the occasional respite.<\/p>\n

The seventh installment in Sue Grafton\u2019s \u201calphabet series\u201d is a contribution to this long Institute tradition. It\u2019s no secret that today\u2019s student is more likely to turn to the Web rather than a novel for a well-earned study break. But the countless date-due stamps at the back of MIT’s copy of \u201cG\u201d Is for Gumshoe<\/em> speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

Nor can anyone deny the sheer success and popularity of Grafton\u2019s \u201cKinsey Millhone\u201d mysteries. In fact, it was after the publication of \u201cG\u201d Is for Gumshoe <\/em> that the author was finally able to quit her day job as a screenwriter. Considering that Grafton has refused to sell the film or television rights to her novels, we can only imagine how sweet that day must have been for her.<\/p>\n

Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1990 You don\u2019t need to be Sherlock Holmes to understand why students might need a break from the rigors of an MIT education. For many decades, the Libraries\u2019 collection of detective fiction has served to provide that escape. Before the Internet, before there was a television in every dorm room, students here at \u201cTech\u201d would curl up with some lighthearted prose for the occasional respite. The seventh installment in Sue Grafton\u2019s \u201calphabet series\u201d is a contribution to this long Institute tradition. It\u2019s no secret that today\u2019s student is more likely to turn to the Web rather than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-years"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}