Description: Trial By Fury by Craig Rice, Pocket Books, Inc., NY, 1943, 246 pp.. Pocket 237. October 1943. 1st printing. The fifth book in the John J. Malone series. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Cover art by Leo Manso. A square, bright and tight copy. Light edge wear ro spine. crease on back cover. Condition - Very Good Plus 314395 Craig Rice(Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig)(1908 - 1957) aka Gypsy Rose Lee, Daphne Sanders, George Sanders, Michael Venning Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. She was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity. n a break from the Windy City, aspiring crime novelist Jake Justus and his wife, Helene, are acquainting themselves with Manhattan's finest cocktail lounges when they befriend Dennis Morrison, a blind-drunk groom. The handsome former male escort thought he'd found his bounty in homely heiress Bertha Lutts, but while their wedding night may have been a bust, the morning after turned out to be the real horror. It seems Bertha has vanished from their bridal suite and in her place is an unidentified beheaded woman. Having taken a shine to Dennis, Jake and Helene call on his best defense: Chicago attorney John J. Malone. Winding his way through both the city's low lives and its high society, Malone quickly discovers a link between the nameless victim, the missing bride, and a slick gigolo: a bohemian Greenwich Village poetess who is free with her verse, knows more than she realizes, and is becoming more frightened with every New York minute. But when Dennis disappears as well, Malone's left with the itchy feeling that another dead end is right around the corner. The basis for the 1945 film starring Carole Landis and Pat O'Brien, Having Wonderful Crime is "a pleasure to read as pure entertainment but there's a also a wicked social voice reporting back from the eyries of the wealthy and privileged. [Rice's] observations are worthy of Tom Wolfe at his best and nastiest" (Ed Gorman). Having Wonderful Crime is the 7th book in the John J. Malone Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Read preview >
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Pocket Books, Inc.
Modified Item: No
Subject: Vintage Paperbacks
Year Printed: 1943
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: (cover art by Leo Manso)
Special Attributes: First Pocket Books Paperback Printing
Region: North America
Author: Craig Rice
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Mystery, Thriller
Character Family: John J. Malone series
