(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 21, 2001 ) Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery
by Jeffrey Marks - Delphi Books - ISBN 0966339711 - April 1, 2001

Jeffrey Marks has contracted with Delphi Books for the publication of his biography of mystery writer Craig Rice. Who Was That Lady? will launch in Chicago, IL, Rice's hometown, at Something Wicked Bookstore.

Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. Her popularity with the reading public (FDR was a fan) landed her on the cover of Time in January 1946. The past fifty years, however, have seen her fall into relative obscurity.

"Rice made an interesting subject for a biography," Marks says. "Nearly every identification point about the author was in dispute: her birth, her real name, her number of marriages and number of children, her canon of fiction, and the cause of her early death."

Following a trail that led from Venice, Italy, to Venice Beach, CA, Marks talked to a number of her contemporaries, her family and her friends to find the answers to those questions. Rice's life touched on many of the great authors of the 20th Century, including W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Jack Kerouac. The biography covers her life and firmly establishes the oeuvre of Rice's novels and short story works.

Jeffrey Marks is the editor of and a contributing author to Canine Crimes (Ballantine anthology) and Magnolias and Mayhem (Silver Dagger anthology). A Web site has been mounted at www.JeffreyMarks.com/Rice/ for more information on the biography.

Delphi Books is a member press of The Authors Studio. More information is available at www.TheAuthorsStudio.org or at www.FranBaker.com.

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