Home Sweet Homicide (American Mystery Classics)

基本信息

by Craig Rice (Author) , Otto Penzler (Introduction By)

Format:Paperback / softback 312 pages

Publisher:Penzler Publishers

Imprint:Penzler Publishers

ISBN:9781613161036

Published:2 Oct 2018

Weight:342g

Dimensions:133 x 202 x 25 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一个死了老公的推理作家发现隔壁发生命案，她的三个孩子一方面试图找出真凶，一方面想撮合妈妈和帅气警探，全书充满了温馨和逗趣的场面，与追捕凶手的步步惊心碰撞出独特的阅读体验。

本书是非系列作品，具有浓郁的英伦风格，仿佛可以看到阿加莎克里斯蒂的影子。

这部小说在一九四六年被拍成电影，克蕾格的玉照在该年登上《时代杂志》的封面，一时之间成为全美最知名的推理小说家……

The children of a mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers

Unoccupied 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?

The basis for the 1946 film with the same name, Home Sweet Homicide 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.

作者简介

克蕾格·莱斯(1908-1957)，一九○八年六月五日，克蕾格·莱斯生于芝加哥，本名是乔治安娜·安·伦道夫·克蕾格(Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig)，她是艺术家、广告代理商，也是推理小说家。除了阿加莎。克里斯蒂，莱斯是唯一一位在全美妇孺皆知的推理女作家。

因为酗酒，莱斯四十九岁便早逝，短暂的一生犹如划过夜空的流星。

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 Time 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.

Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975), a literary crime imprint now associated with Grove/Atlantic; 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 Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.