I hate to be blunt, but you're wrong.

That said, detective novel legend Sue Grafton herself was incredibly blunt about it.

"I will never sell [Kinsey Millhone] to Hollywood," she said in a 1997 interview with January magazine. "And I have made my children promise not to sell her. We've taken a blood oath, and if they do so, I will come back from the grave: which they know I can do."

Kinsey Millhone is the protagonist of Grafton's wildly popular and long-running series known as the alphabet books, which started with "A is for Alibi" in 1982. (They ended, sadly, with "Y is for Yesterday," the final novel Grafton finished before her death in 2017.)

It's possible that you're thinking of one of the numerous TV movies Grafton wrote with other characters — often adaptations of other people's novels. For example, she penned the scripts for "A Caribbean Mystery" and "Sparkling Cyanide," both released in 1983 and based on the works of fellow mystery giant Agatha Christie.

This would track with you saying that they weren't very good — Grafton said so herself and, furthermore, said that's the reason she made her children promise not to sell the rights to her own books.

"I've trashed other writers," she said in the same January magazine interview. "I'm not gonna let them have a crack at me."

It seems, though, that she either changed her mind in recent years or else didn't ask her husband, Steve Humphrey, for the same deal. It was announced a year ago that he would serve as an executive producer on a TV series based on the alphabet books.

A E Studios won a bidding war for the rights, which means the show, when it happens, will likely air on one of the A E Networks channels — most likely Lifetime or the flagship channel, A&E.

There's still no news of an air date, or of Humphrey being haunted by Grafton's ghost.

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