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The Classic Collection of Craig Rice. Five Detective Novels. Illustrated

The Lucky Stiff, The Fourth Postman, The Sunday Pigeon Murders, Crime on My Hands, Innocent Bystander

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Step into the madcap, murder-filled world of Craig Rice, the first woman ever to grace the cover of Time magazine as a mystery writer—and one of the most original voices of America's Golden Age of crime fiction. This illustrated five-novel collection brings together some of Rice’s most memorable works, blending sharp-witted humor, screwball situations, and classic whodunit suspense. Featuring the ... Read more

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Step into the madcap, murder-filled world of Craig Rice, the first woman ever to grace the cover of Time magazine as a mystery writer—and one of the most original voices of America's Golden Age of crime fiction. This illustrated five-novel collection brings together some of Rice’s most memorable works, blending sharp-witted humor, screwball situations, and classic whodunit suspense. Featuring the
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The Lucky Stiff

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Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Series Audiobook 8 - The John J. Malone Series
Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from “the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” (Ed Gorman).Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago’s sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch ... Read more

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Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from “the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” (Ed Gorman).Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago’s sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch
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Home Sweet Homicide

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From the "grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy": The children of a widowed mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author).When your mom's a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children of prolific whodunit author Marion Carstairs become material witnesses in a neighborhood murder, they launch ... Read more

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From the "grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy": The children of a widowed mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author).When your mom's a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children of prolific whodunit author Marion Carstairs become material witnesses in a neighborhood murder, they launch
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My Kingdom for a Hearse

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Series Audiobook 11 - The John J. Malone Series
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There has never been a woman as beautiful as top model Delora Deanne. But Delora Deanne doesn’t really exist. Unknown to the panting public, Delora is a composite of many women. Her face is played by Gertrude Bragg. Torso and legs by Eula Stolz. Hands, Eva Lou Strauss. Brains, Hazel Swackhammer.But now, Delora is coming apart. Hazel Swackhammer receives the first in what is to be a series of ... Read more

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There has never been a woman as beautiful as top model Delora Deanne. But Delora Deanne doesn’t really exist. Unknown to the panting public, Delora is a composite of many women. Her face is played by Gertrude Bragg. Torso and legs by Eula Stolz. Hands, Eva Lou Strauss. Brains, Hazel Swackhammer.But now, Delora is coming apart. Hazel Swackhammer receives the first in what is to be a series of
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Eight Faces at Three

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Series Book 1 - The John J. Malone Mysteries
"The grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" introduces her popular, sharp-witted Chicago lawyer/sleuth (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author).John J. Malone, defender of the guilty, is notorious for getting his culpable clients off. It's the innocent ones who are problems. Like Holly Inglehart, accused of piercing the black heart of her well-heeled and tyrannical aunt ... Read more

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"The grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" introduces her popular, sharp-witted Chicago lawyer/sleuth (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author).John J. Malone, defender of the guilty, is notorious for getting his culpable clients off. It's the innocent ones who are problems. Like Holly Inglehart, accused of piercing the black heart of her well-heeled and tyrannical aunt
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45 Murderers

A Collection of True Crime Stories

by Craig Rice ...

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin, Johnny Heller ...

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9 hours 18 min

From Hollywood’s Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true-crime profiles by “the grand dame of mystery” (Ed Gorman)Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. ... Read more

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From Hollywood’s Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true-crime profiles by “the grand dame of mystery” (Ed Gorman)Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders.
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Once Upon a Train

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A cross-country express, a fortune in embezzled cash, and two mismatched detectives tangled in the same case – here is golden-age comic mystery at its most irresistible, sparkling with wit and mischief.Written together by Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer, Once Upon a Train throws the hard-drinking Chicago lawyer John J. Malone into the path of the redoubtable schoolteacher-detective Hildegarde Withers ... Read more

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A cross-country express, a fortune in embezzled cash, and two mismatched detectives tangled in the same case – here is golden-age comic mystery at its most irresistible, sparkling with wit and mischief.Written together by Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer, Once Upon a Train throws the hard-drinking Chicago lawyer John J. Malone into the path of the redoubtable schoolteacher-detective Hildegarde Withers
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Having Wonderful Crime

by Craig Rice ...

Series Book 7 - The John J. Malone Mysteries
A Chicago attorney scours the Big Apple for a missing bride and a wedding-night murderer in a mystery that's "Miss Rice at her best" ( The New Yorker).On a break from the Windy City, aspiring crime novelist Jake Justus and his wife, Helene, are acquainting themselves with Manhattan's finest cocktail lounges when they befriend Dennis Morrison, a blind-drunk groom. The handsome former male escort ... Read more

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A Chicago attorney scours the Big Apple for a missing bride and a wedding-night murderer in a mystery that's "Miss Rice at her best" ( The New Yorker).On a break from the Windy City, aspiring crime novelist Jake Justus and his wife, Helene, are acquainting themselves with Manhattan's finest cocktail lounges when they befriend Dennis Morrison, a blind-drunk groom. The handsome former male escort
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Crime on My Hands

A George Sanders Mystery

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" The Dorothy Parker of detective fiction" (William Ruehlmann) ghostwrites for silver-screen sleuth George Sanders in this "thriller with laughs on the side" ( New York Herald-Tribune).The snarky and debonair actor George Sanders (who would go on to win an Academy Award for his performance in All About Eve) has had enough of playing a B-movie detective in the Falcon film series. He's thrilled to ... Read more

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" The Dorothy Parker of detective fiction" (William Ruehlmann) ghostwrites for silver-screen sleuth George Sanders in this "thriller with laughs on the side" ( New York Herald-Tribune).The snarky and debonair actor George Sanders (who would go on to win an Academy Award for his performance in All About Eve) has had enough of playing a B-movie detective in the Falcon film series. He's thrilled to
... Read more
The Lucky Stiff

by Craig Rice ...

Series series The John J. Malone Mysteries
Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman).Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago's sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch ... Read more

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Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman).Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago's sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch
... Read more

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The Right Murder

by Craig Rice ...

Series series The John J. Malone Mysteries
A dozen murders and counting—and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon.It's 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He's been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermuda honeymoon. But Malone ... Read more

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A dozen murders and counting—and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon.It's 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He's been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermuda honeymoon. But Malone
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The Fourth Postman

by Craig Rice ...

The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine."Mass murder of postmen in a posh Chicago suburb interests lawyer Malone, Jake and Helene Justus, and other well-remembered Riceomaniacs.Plot and people as wacky as ever, with busted Malone and chicken-poxed Justuses supplying plenty of comedy and, surprisingly, much intriguing sleuthing. ... Read more

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The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine."Mass murder of postmen in a posh Chicago suburb interests lawyer Malone, Jake and Helene Justus, and other well-remembered Riceomaniacs.Plot and people as wacky as ever, with busted Malone and chicken-poxed Justuses supplying plenty of comedy and, surprisingly, much intriguing sleuthing.
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