Sue Grafton, the mystery writer who penned best-selling novels with alphabet-based titles, starting with "A Is for Alibi" and ending with "Y Is for Yesterday," has died. She was 77. <br/><br/>Grafton died at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, after battling cancer of the appendix. According to author's webpage, she started the alphabet novels in 1982. Her last alphabet mystery was published last August. "Z Is for Zero" was tentatively scheduled to come out in 2019.