CRAIG RICE/MICHAEL VENNING/DAPHNE SANDERS/GYPSY ROSE LEE/GEORGE SANDERS:

This is Rice's output, with year of publication, alternate titles (if any), Swedish titles, and the detective of the story. Many short stories (nos. 22-54) have not been collected in book-form. After these follow the novels Rice wrote under the pseudonym Michael Venning (nos. 55-57). Then follows her output under the three pseudonyms Daphne Sanders (no. 58), Gypsy Rose Lee (nos. 59-60) and George Sanders (no. 61).

M = J. J. Malone
R/K = Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak
MF = Melville Fairr


  1. 8 FACES AT 3 1939 (Death at three/Murder stops the clock)
    Alla goda ting är tre
    (M)

  2. THE CORPSE STEPS OUT 1940
    Död man hälsar på
    (M)

  3. THE WRONG MURDER 1940
    Fel mord
    (M)

  4. THE RIGHT MURDER 1941
    Rätt mord
    (M)

  5. TRIAL BY FURY 1941
    Rätt i rövarhänder
    (M)

  6. THE BIG MIDGET MURDERS 1942
    Mord i miniatyr
    (M)

  7. THE SUNDAY PIGEON MURDERS 1942
    Söndagsduvan försvinner
    (R/K)

  8. TELEFAIR 1942 (Yesterday's murder)

  9. HAVING WONDERFUL CRIME 1943
    Brottsligt livat
    (M)

  10. THE THURSDAY TURKEY MURDERS 1943
    Mord och kalkoner
    (R/K)

  11. HOME SWEET HOMICIDE 1944
    Mord lilla mor!

  12. THE LUCKY STIFF 1945
    Lik förbannat
    (M)

  13. THE FOURTH POSTMAN 1948
    Fjärde man
    (M)

  14. INNOCENT BYSTANDER 1949
    Mord med nöje

  15. KNOCKED FOR A LOOP 1957 (The double frame)
    Rena barnleken
    (M)

  16. MY KINGDOM FOR A HEARSE 1957
    Mycket händer och fötter
    (M)

  17. THE APRIL ROBIN MURDERS 1958 *
    Hus så hemskt!
    (R/K)

  18. THE NAME IS MALONE 1960
    (M)

    1. The murder of Mr. Malone
       Malone är död
    2. The tears of evil
    3. His heart could break (Hanged him in the mornin')
      Hjärtat kunde brista
    4. Good-bye forever
       Farväl för evigt
    5. And the birds still sing
       Och ännu sjunger fåglarna
    6. He never went home
    7. Life can be horrible
    8. Good-bye, good-bye
       Farväl, farväl
    9. The bad luck murders (Dead men's shoes)
    10. The end of fear
  19. THE PEOPLE VS. WITHERS AND MALONE 1963 **
    (M)

    1. Once upon a train
    2. Cherchez la frame
    3. Autopsy and Eva
    4. Rift in the loot
    5. People vs. Withers and Malone (Withers and Malone, crime-busters)
    6. Withers and Malone, brain-stormers
  20. BUT THE DOCTOR DIED 1967
    (M)

  21. MURDER, MYSTERY AND MALONE 2002

    1. Wry highball
      (M)
    2. The frightened millionaire
      (M)
    3. Shot in the dark
      (M)
    4. Say it with flowers
      (M)
    5. How now, Ophelia
      (MF)
    6. Death in the moonlight
      (MF)
    7. Beyond the shadow of a dream
      (M)
    8. One more clue
      (M)
    9. They're trying to kill me
      Man försöker döda mig
       (M)
    10. No, not like yesterday
      (M)
    11. Hard sell
      (M)
    12. The dead undertaker (Murder marches on)
      (M)





  22. Don't go near him 1953

  23. A quiet day in the county jail 1953
    En lugn dag i länsfängelset
     (M)

  24. The dead Mr. Duck 1953 (The man who swallowed a horse)

  25. Motive 1953 (Smoke rings)
    (M)

  26. The last man alive 1953

  27. The bells are ringing 1953

  28. …and be merry 1954

  29. I'm a stranger here myself 1954 (Alias: Trouble)

  30. The little knife that wasn't there 1954 (Malone and the missing weapon)
    (M)

  31. I'll see you in my dreams 1954

  32. No vacancies 1954

  33. Murder in the family 1954
    (M)

  34. Flowers to the fair 1954 (A weakness for women)

  35. Mrs. Schultz is dead 1955

  36. No motive for murder 1955

  37. The headless hatbox 1955
    (M)

  38. The murdered Magdalen 1955

  39. The house of missing girls 1955

  40. The air-tight alibi 1956

  41. Dead men spend no cash 1956

  42. The quiet life 1956
    Den vita hunden????
  43. The deadly deceiver 1956

  44. The understanding wife 1956

  45. And do write often 1957

  46. Sixty cents worth of murder 1957

  47. Cheese it, the corpse 1957

  48. Lady's day at the morgue 1958

  49. The well-liked victim 1958

  50. The very groovy corpse 1958

  51. The butler who didn't do it 1960

  52. The fall of 'The House of Deuteronomy' 1961

  53. Death in the hills 1962

  54. The anniversary murders 1966




  55. THE MAN WHO SLEPT ALL DAY 1942
    (MF)

  56. MURDER THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 1943
    (MF)

  57. JETHRO HAMMER 1944
    (MF)




  58. TO CATCH A THIEF 1943




  59. THE G-STRING MURDERS 1941 (Lady of burlesque/The strip-tease murders)
    Döden väntar i kulissen

  60. MOTHER FINDS A BODY 1942




  61. CRIME ON MY HANDS 1944 ***


* Finished by Ed McBain after Rice's death.
** Written together with Stuart Palmer, and it features his detective Hildegard Withers as well as Malone.
*** Written together with Cleve Cartmill.

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