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Craig Rice

(Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig)

(1908 - 1957)

aka Gypsy Rose Lee, Daphne Sanders, George Sanders, Michael Venning

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.

Genres: Mystery

Series

John J. Malone
   1. Eight Faces at Three (1939)
     aka Death at Three
   2. The Corpse Steps Out (1940)
   3. The Wrong Murder (1940)
   4. The Right Murder (1941)
   5. Trial by Fury (1941)
   6. The Big Midget Murders (1942)
   7. Having a Wonderful Crime (1943)
   8. The Lucky Stiff (1945)
   9. Fourth Postman (1948)
   10. Knocked for a Loop (1957)
     aka The Double Frame
   11. My Kingdom for a Hearse (1957)
   12. The Name Is Malone (1958)
   13. But the Doctor Died (1967)

Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak
   1. The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942)
   2. The Thursday Turkey Murders (1943)
   3. The April Robin Murders (1958) (with Ed McBain)

Novels

   The G-String Murders (1941) (as by Gypsy Rose Lee)
   The Man Who Slept All Day (1942) (as by Michael Venning)
   Telefair (1942)
     aka Yesterday's Murder
   To Catch a Thief (1943) (as by Daphne Sanders)
   Crime on My Hands (1944) (as by George Sanders)
   Home Sweet Homicide (1944)
   Stranger at Home (1947) (with Leigh Brackett (as by George Sanders) )
   Innocent Bystander (1949)
   Mother Finds a Body (1953) (as by Gypsy Rose Lee)
   Mrs. Schultz is Dead (1955)