Order of Craig Rice Books
Craig Rice is the pen name of American author Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig (1908-1957), who wrote mystery novels. She is known for her John J. Malone series. Her mysteries combined hardboiled detective fiction with screwball comedy. She also ghostwrote for George Sanders and Gypsy Rose Lee, and collaborated with Stuart Palmer and Ed McBain. Craig Rice was the first female author to ever appear on the cover of Time Magazine.
Craig Rice made her debut as a novelist in 1939 with the novel Eight Faces at Three (aka Death at Three). Below is a list of Craig Rice’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of John J. Malone Books
| Eight Faces at Three / Death at Three | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Corpse Steps Out | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wrong Murder | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Right Murder | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trial by Fury | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Midget Murders | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Having a Wonderful Crime | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lucky Stiff | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fourth Postman | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Double Frame / Knocked for a Loop | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Kingdom for a Hearse | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Name is Malone | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder, Mystery and Malone | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| But the Doctor Died | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Books
| The Sunday Pigeon Murders | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Thursday Turkey Murders | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The April Robin Murders | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Yesterday's Murder / Telefair | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Slept All Day | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| To Catch a Thief | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Home Sweet Homicide | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime on My Hands | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stranger at Home | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Innocent Bystander | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Once Upon a Train | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Go Near | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Gypsy Rose Lee Plays
(as Gypsy Rose Lee, Arthur Laurents)
| Gypsy: A Musical Suggested by the Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder Plus | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder On The Railways | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Craig Rice Synopsis: Yesterday’s Murder is a standalone title by Craig Rice. If it hadn’t been for his great-uncle Philip, David Telefair would’ve grown up unwanted, forlorn, and poverty stricken in a New England parsonage. But for twenty years, David’s generous benefactor paid for his education, yearly summer camps, living expenses as he grew older, and any amenities he ever needed. Odd that David had never spoken to him in his entire life. Odder still that after all this time, the aging Philip has now extended an invitation for David to meet him at his isolated estate on Telefair Island in the Chesapeake.
From the moment David arrives, something feels… off. First was the local minister’s daughter’s queer way of describing David’s visit: inevitable; then the unaccountable loathing in the eyes of a Telefair servant; and finally a perilously pale female cousin who welcomes David with a warning: “You ought never to have come.” This is less a family reunion than an ingeniously designed trap of murder, madness, and nasty family secrets.