{"product_id":"home-sweet-homicide-9781613161036","title":"Home Sweet Homicide","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnoccupied 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 detectives would do in such a situation, how they would interpret the clues and handle witnesses. Plus, if the children solve the puzzle before the cops, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe basis for the 1946 film with the same name, \u003cem\u003eHome Sweet Homicide\u003c\/em\u003e is the novel that launched Craig Rice to literary fame. The book, a comedic crime story that pokes fun at the conventions of the genre, finds \"the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction\" at her most entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRice, Craig:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Craig Rice (1908-1957), born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, was an American author of mystery novels, short stories, and screenplays. In 1946, she became the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. 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. She also collaborated with mystery writer Stuart Palmer on screenplays and short stories, and ghost-wrote several titles published under the byline of actor George Sanders.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePenzler, Otto:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eOtto Penzler, \u003c\/strong\u003e the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975); Mysterious Press.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City's Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Mystery and Detection\u003c\/em\u003e, 1977, and \u003cem\u003eThe Lineup\u003c\/em\u003e, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and \u003cem\u003eThe Strand Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.","brand":"American Mystery Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360324882706,"sku":"9781613161036","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01d8f18a-fe12-4be0-8264-498e7abf6f80.jpg?v=1728361019","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/home-sweet-homicide-9781613161036","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}