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Death from Nowhere: Don Diavolo Mysteries by Clayton Rawson
Trapped in a dead man’s office, Don Diavolo plans his greatest escape. more...
The Great Merlini by Clayton Rawson
A dozen compact puzzles from a master of the locked-room mystery. more...
No Coffin for the Corpse by Clayton Rawson
A murdered blackmailer haunts a captain of industry. more...
Death Out of Thin Air: Don Diavolo Mysteries by Clayton Rawson
Two tall tales of mystery, the occult, and death-defying escapes. more...
Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson
When a necromancer is murdered, a magician takes the case. more...
The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice
For a Windy City attorney, the clues to a triple murder lie somewhere between the sinking of the Titanic and the dead letter office. more...
The Corpse Steps Out by Craig Rice
A Chicago cad blackmails a torch singer in this thriller: “Why can’t all murders be as funny as those concocted by Craig Rice?” (The New York Times). more...
Eight Faces at Three by Craig Rice
“The grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” introduces her popular, sharp-witted Chicago lawyer/sleuth (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author). more...
Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from “the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” (Ed Gorman). more...
Crime on my Hands by Craig Rice
“The Dorothy Parker of detective fiction” (William Ruehlmann) ghostwrites for silver-screen sleuth George Sanders in this “thriller with laughs on the side”(New York Herald-Tribune). more...
The Right Murder by Craig Rice
A dozen murders and counting—and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon. more...
Having Wonderful Crime by Craig Rice
A Chicago attorney scours the Big Apple for a missing bride and a wedding-night murderer in a mystery that’s “Miss Rice at her best” (The New Yorker). more...
Yesterday's Murder by Craig Rice
From the author of the John J. Malone Mysteries: An estranged relative becomes heir to a Chesapeake Bay fortune—and his family’s ghostly history.
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The Thursday Turkey Murders by Craig Rice
This Thanksgiving, two birds of a feather are about to get plucked—“Why can’t all murders be as funny as those concocted by Craig Rice?” (The New York Times). more...
Innocent Bystanders by Craig Rice
A midway murder sends a terrified eyewitness running for her life—from a cop, a con, and her own secrets—in this mystery by the author of the John J. Malone series. more...
Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice
From the “grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy”: The children of a widowed mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author). more...
A Chicago lawyer must save his big-city friends from small-town corruption in this “triumphantly rowdy” mystery (Time) that’s also “exciting [and] hard as nails” (The New Yorker). more...
My Kingdom for a Hearse by Craig Rice
A supermodel’s beauty secrets trigger an ugly series of murders in this “pretty damn wonderful” mystery (The New York Times). more...
The Man Who Slept All Day by Craig Rice
A weekend getaway among friends becomes an occasion for murder in this “entertaining tantalizer” of a whodunit (Kirkus Reviews). more...
The Name is Malone by Craig Rice
Ten stories featuring the Chicago attorney-turned-sleuth from “the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” (Ed Gorman). more...
