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Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; June 5, 1908 – August 28, 1957) was an American writer of mystery novels and short stories, described by book critic Bill Ruehlmann as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction, she wrote the binge and lived the hangover."
Aug 26, 2018 · Life Can Be Horrible. That’s the name of a screwball short story CRAIG RICE once wrote. It might as well have been her epitath. In its January 28, 1946 issue, Time Magazine selected writer Craig Rice for a cover feature on the mystery genre — the first time a mystery writer was to grace the cover.
Aug 3, 2021 · Craig Rice lived a storied life even before she was published. One friend described her like this: “She was the only woman I ever met who could crochet, play chess, read a book and compose music at the same time—and hold a highball.
Complete order of Craig Rice books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. She was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity.
Home Sweet Homicide was originally published in 1944 by Craig Rice (aka Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig) and reprinted in 2018 by Otto Penzler, who is re-introducing reading audiences to mystery and detective fiction from the years between the first and second World Wars.
Aug 14, 2018 · 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...
