Craig rice pseudonym (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: FINE. Reprint. A stand-alone mystery novel about a woman mystery writer and her three children, who are very unusual amateur sleuths. A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. Originally published in 1944; basis for the film of the same name. In striking contrast to the humor in her novels, Rice's real life was difficult and often unhappy. 291 pp plus 3 pp about the author. Fine in dark green boards with pink and gilt lettering, no dust jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Book Club Edition. The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.25 inches. 217, [3] pages. The front hinge is cracked and restrengthened with glue. Name of previous owner and date stamped on fep. The dust jacket is heavily worn, torn, soiled, scuffed and chipped. 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." Rice's first steps in publishing were as a writer for The Milwaukee Journal and The Chicago American. In 1930-31 she started working for radio stations, first WCLO and then the Beacon Syndicate in 1931. Her first fictional character, Professor Silvernail, was created for WCLO Syndicate Serials (1933). Gritty but humorous, Rice's stories uniquely combine the hard-boiled detective tradition with no-holds-barred, screwball comedy. Rice also ghostwrote for George Sanders. She collaborated with fellow mystery writer Stuart Palmer on screenplays and short stories. Ed McBain completed her final novel for which she furnished the principal characters, Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak. (The "collaboration" with McBain is a "posthumous collaboration in which McBain completed an unfinished book begun by Rice. In a foreword to at least one edition of the book, McBain wrote that the book was essentially half-finished in first draft, but there were no notes as to how she had intended to continue it, so that he had to solve the mystery himself before completing the manuscript.) Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre. His other notable works include The Blackboard Jungle, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a troubled inner-city school, which was adapted into a hit 1955 film of the same name. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds, based on the Daphne du Maurier short story. Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon and Richard Marsten, among others. In 1951, Lombino took a job as an executive editor for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, working with authors such as Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Richard S. Prather, and P.G. Wodehouse. He made his first professional short story sale the same year, a science-fiction tale titled "Welcome, Martians!", credited to S. A. Lombino. A prolific author in several genres, Hunter also published approximately two dozen science fiction stories and four science-fiction novels between 1951 and 1956 under the names S. A. Lombino, Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten, D. A. Addams, and Ted Taine. Ed McBain, his best known pseudonym, was first used with Cop Hater (1956), the first novel in the 87th Precinct crime series. Hunter revealed that he was McBain in 1958 but continued to use the pseudonym for decades, notably for the 87th Precinct series and the Matthew Hope detective series. He retired the pen names Addams, Cannon, Collins, Marsten, and Taine around 1960. From then on crime novels were generally attributed to McBain and other sorts of fiction to Hunter. Reprints of crime-oriented stories and novels written in the 1950s previously attributed to other pseudonyms were reissued under the McBain byline. Hunter stated that the division of names allowed readers to know what to expect: McBain novels had a consistent writing style, while Hunter novels were more varied. In The April Robins Murders Bingo and Handsome, partners in the International Foto, Motion Picture and Television Corporation of America (or, to put it more bluntly, street photographers) decided to try their fortune in Hollywood. With a bankroll of $2,773 along with Bingo's complete faith in himself and Handsome's photographic memory, they were all set to succeed, until things went wrong from the moment they bought the mansion that once belonged to April Robin, the great star of silent-screen days. The previous owner, Julien Lattimer, died in mysterious circumstances. But, they learn soon enough, a body was never found, and moreover there are two wives, his fourth and fifth, disputing the matter. The fourth thinks Lattimer is dead (we assume murdered by the fifth wife), and so she should get the inheritance, while the fifth claims Lattimer is alive and so she still gets the property. In good time there are a couple of further murders, and Bingo and Handsome are in a bit of a pinch, between the importunings of a couple of different conmen, the interests of agents and producers and neighbors, and the suspicions of two policeman, a classic good cop/bad cop pair. The solution is a bit intricate-- involving the mystery of April Robin's brief career along with the stories of Julien Lattimer, his wives, and a couple of other people Bingo and Handsome bump into. …

Zustand: VERY GOOD. Original book club edition. An omnibus edition containing three complete mystery novels - "The Case of the Buried Clock" by Erle Stanley Gardner, a classic Perry Mason novel; "Headlong for Murder" by Madeleine McCoy (under the Merlda Mace pseudonym) is the first novel featuring Christine Anderson, a young blonde Scandinavian from Minnesota, struggling to get by in New York City who isn't going to let anything get in the way of a promised vacation on the Connecticut coast; and "To Catch a Thief" by Craig Rice (under the Daphne Sanders pseudonym), the story of a man who turns to robbery to right the wrongs done by several wealthy stock market manipulators during the Depression. This is considered one of her best novels and is also among the most difficult to find. One of the pleasures of these omnibus volumes, which combine three very different works in one book, is the opportunity they create of discovering authors or novels which might be unknown to you. Published in compliance with the conservation orders of the War Compliance Board, it is surprising that the pages appear to be acid free, and are still white and supple, unlike many wartime books. 622 pp. Very good+ in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, a faint "old book" musty odor in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). These vintage book club editions are becoming hard-to-find in dustjacket.…

dj. First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 219 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth, white titles to spine. Blue card over boards. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.95 to front flap. Fore edge untrimmed. Publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Heavily toned throughout, otherwise clean. Textblock edges toned. Light toning/marking to rear jacket panel. Toning to jacket spine. Gentle edgewear. Very good. Detective John Malone is framed for the murder of his nemesis and the kidnapping of his young stepdaughter.…

Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. New York: The Dial Press, 1943. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's deep grey cloth stamped in dark blue. Good. Lean to spine, boards slightly bowed with creasing to front board visible to cloth and front pastedown, rear pastedown visibly creased. Pages toned, foxing to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages. In a Good dust jacket with rubbing and wear, a large chip at the tail and to top of the rear panel near the spine. Not to be confused David Dodge's novel bearing the same title, which served for the basis of the Alfred Hitchcock film. Written under pseudonym by Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig), who was often referred to as the "Dorothy Parker of detective fiction.". …