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Sue, Grabbitt and Runne is a fictitious firm of solicitors retained to engage in lawsuits both real and fictional. These are often frivolous, pointless, cynical or without foundation (see Arkell v Pressdram – above) but not always.
[citation needed] Another example is "Sue, Grabbit and Runne", often used as a comedic stand-in for defamation lawyers in the UK. [19] [20] A popular poster for The Three Stooges features the Stooges as bumbling members of such a firm, [21] with the actual episode using the name "Dewey, Burnham, and Howe".
Sue, Grabbit & Runne, featured regularly in Private Eye magazine; Sue, Cripple & Sneer, featured in Frontier: Elite 2, a video game; Wright & Co. (previously Fey & Co.), from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, a video game; Wolff & Byrd, attorneys of the Macabre from the comic books of the same name; Themis Law Firm, from the mobile game Tears of Themis
"G" Is for Gumshoe (1990) is the seventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels [1] [2] and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In "G" Is for Gumshoe , Kinsey Millhone meets fellow investigator Robert Dietz when someone hires a hit man to kill her. [ 5 ]
Runne may refer to: Ossi Runne (born 1927), male Finnish trumpeter; Eha Rünne (born 1963), female shot putter and discus thrower from Estonia;
"R" Is for Ricochet is the 18th novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels [1] and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. [ 2 ] The daughter of Nord Lafferty will be brought home from prison by Kinsey Millhone, who also offers to help her adjust to life outside of prison.
Sue Mundy was a fictional guerrilla character created by George D. Prentice, the editor of the Louisville Journal. Prentice opposed the heavy-handed military rule of General Stephen G. Burbridge in Kentucky during the American Civil War .
Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to C. W. Grafton (1909–1982) and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian missionaries. [2]Her father was a municipal bond lawyer who also wrote mystery novels, and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher. [3]