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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

    by Craig Rice ...
    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

    $0.99 USD

  • Eight Faces at Three

    by Craig Rice ...
    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

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Home Sweet Homicide

    by Craig Rice ...
    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

    $8.69 USD

  • The Name Is Malone

    by Craig Rice ...
    Series series The John J. Malone Mysteries
    Ten stories featuring the Chicago attorney-turned-sleuth from " the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman).From suburban cocktail parties to music halls to the precarious ledge of a high-rise, Chicago attorney John J. Malone is willing to take on any case—as long as it'll pay his bar tab.In this ten-story collection of murder most offbeat, a wedding anniversary party turns ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • The Lucky Stiff

    by Craig Rice ...
    Anne Marie, imprisoned for a murder she did not commit, plans her revenge -- and once she's cleared of the charges, she launches headfirst into a screwball murder mystery!Craig Rice (1908–1957); born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; was an American author of mystery novels and short stories, sometimes described as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction." She was the first mystery writer to appear ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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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

    $9.89 USD

  • The Big Midget Murders

    by Craig Rice ...
    The Big Midget Murders by Craig Rice is a dazzling blend of murder mystery and madcap humor that showcases why Rice earned the nickname "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction." Known for her ability to mix crime with comedy, Rice spins a tale where danger and absurdity walk hand in hand, keeping readers both on edge and entertained.The novel throws her recurring protagonists—lawyer John J. ... Read more

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  • I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

    by John Andrew Rice, William Craig Rice ...
    Series series Southern Classics
    A first-person account of race and class in the Jim Crow SouthJohn Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Once Upon a Train

    by Craig Rice ...
    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

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lucky Stiff. John J. Malone Mysteries. Illustrated

    by Craig Rice ...
    In The Lucky Stiff, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice delivers a fast-paced, witty, and delightfully offbeat crime caper featuring her unforgettable trio: hard-drinking lawyer John J. Malone, glamorous heiress Helene Brand, and wisecracking press agent Jake Justus. When a wealthy playboy is murdered on the eve of his wedding, Malone and his eccentric companions find themselves tangled in a web ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Postman

    by Craig Rice ...
    First published in the US in 1948, ''The Fourth Postman'' is a wacky, screwball mystery by Craig Rice featuring the rumpled, liquor-loving Chicago defense attorney, John J. Malone. The story centers around Rodney Fairfaxx, a wealthy, eccentric Chicago magnate. Three decades ago, his sweetheart sank with the Titanic, and he has spent every day since anxiously awaiting a letter from her. When three ... Read more

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