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Home Sweet Homicide (American Mystery Classics Series) by Craig Rice
Home Sweet Homicide (American Mystery Classics Series) by Craig Rice
Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when the kids hear gunshots at the house next door, they jump at the chance to launch their own amateur investigation -- and after all, why shouldn't they? They know everything the cops do about crime scenes, having read about them in mother's novels. They know what her literary sleuths would do in such a situation, how they would interpret the clues and handle witnesses. Plus, if the children solve the puzzle before the police, it will do wonders for the sales of mother's novels. But this crime scene isn't a game at all; the murder is real, and when its details prove more twisted than anything in mother's fiction, they'll have to enlist Marion's help to sort them out. Or is that just part of their plan to hook her up with the lead detective on the case?
Craig Rice (1908 - 1957), born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, was an American author of mystery novels, short stories, and screenplays. Best known for her character John J. Malone, a rumpled Chicago lawyer, Rice's writing style was unique in its ability to mix gritty, hard-boiled writing with the entertainment of a screwball comedy.
PENZLER PUBLICATIONS, SOFTCOVER, 1944, 2018
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