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.
A Vindication of the Rights of Women is a proto-feminist polemic that bases its arguments on Enlightenment values of liberation, justice and equality. Though Wollstonecraft declares that women are equal to men, she does not always uphold this statement in all cases. However, she sharply critiques unfair economic and domestic treatment towards women and the unjust cultural standards and values imposed upon them, arguing for female education and fair treatment in marriage.
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos is a collection of stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft centered on his original mythology of ancient gods, insanity, lost temples, and oceanic terror. Stories like Dagon and The Call of Cthulhu deal with common Lovecraftian themes like the insignificance of humanity, the vastness of space and the ocean, and the unknowability of threats arising from both places. Lovecraft's collection explores his frightening world in meticulous detail.
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales is a collection of short fiction involving and peripheral to the Cthulhu mythos. The stories follow scientists, psychologists, academics, and other members of literate society in turn-of-the-century New England as they investigate and combat the malignant entities dwelling deep under the ocean and in the vast waste of the Arctic. The stories dwell on themes of isolation, the insignificance of mankind, and the vastness of the unexplored world.