Craig Rice (author) - Novels and Short Story Collections

Novels and Short Story Collections

All novels feature John J. Malone and Jake and Helene Justus unless otherwise noted.

  • Eight Faces at Three (1939) "John J. Malone, rumpled Chicago lawyer, teams up with press agent Jake Justus and eccentric heiress Helene Brand, to discover who killed a vicious dowager and why the murderer then made up the beds in the victim's house and stopped the clocks at 3:00."
  • The Corpse Steps Out (1940)
  • The Wrong Murder (1940)
  • The Right Murder (1941)
  • The G-String Murders (1941; possibly ghostwritten for Gypsy Rose Lee, though there is much dispute) (featuring and published as by Gypsy Rose Lee)
  • Trial by Fury (1941)
  • The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942; Bingo and Handsome)
  • Mother Finds a Body (1942; ghostwritten for Gypsy Rose Lee) (featuring and published as by Gypsy Rose Lee)
  • The Big Midget Murders (1942)
  • Telefair (1942; non-series)
  • Having Wonderful Crime (1943)
  • The Thursday Turkey Murders (1942; Bingo and Handsome)
  • Home Sweet Homicide (1944; non-series)
  • Crime on My Hands (1944; ghostwritten for and published as by George Sanders)
  • The Lucky Stiff (1945)
  • The Fourth Postman (1948)
  • Innocent Bystander (1949; non-series)
  • My Kingdom for a Hearse (1957)
  • Knocked for a Loop (1957; all publication from this point on is posthumous)
  • The April Robin Murders (1958, principally credited to Ed McBain and featuring Bingo and Handsome)
  • The Name is Malone (1958; short stories)
  • People vs. Withers and Malone (1963; short stories; completed by Stuart Palmer and featuring his Hildegarde Withers character)
  • But the Doctor Died (1967)
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone (2002; short story collection)
  • The Pickled Poodles (1960, by Larry M. Harris) is a continuation of the John J. Malone series.

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