Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice travels to a magical land by climbing through a mirror above a fireplace. The land is in the form of a large chessboard, complete with life-sized chess pieces. In her journey across the chessboard, Alice meets a number of nursery rhyme characters, including Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum and Humpty Dumpty. When she reaches the end of the board, Alice becomes queen. She puts the king in checkmate, which allows her to return to her own world.
A is For Alibi is a 1982 crime novel by Sue Grafton, the first in her "Alphabet" series. The novel follows detective Kinsey Millhone, who investigates the murder of Laurence Fife, for which his wife had been imprisoned. The investigation leads Kinsey to other murders of the same strange method (the poison oleander). Eventually the case is unravelled and she discovers that Scorsoni, a man whom she was involved with and who was Fife's business partner, is a murderer. In a confrontation on the beach she kills him.