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    Once Upon a Train (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Once Upon a Train (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Once Upon a Train (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    Once Upon a Train (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Craig Rice

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    Craig Rice was a popular mystery author of the mid-20th century, penning twenty novels and many short stories. She had a devoted readership, and in 1946 became the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine. 'Once Upon a Train' is one of her best-remembered stories. The Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateOct 19, 2012
    ISBN9781447480020
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      Once Upon a Train (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Craig Rice

      Train

      CRAIG RICE

      Georgiana Ann Craig was born in Chicago in 1908. Her parents were highly neglectful of her, and Rice was raised by her aunt and uncle in Wisconsin. It is her uncle who has been credited with introducing the young Rice to mystery and speculative fiction by reading her the work of Edgar Allen Poe each evening.

      During the late twenties and early thirties, Rice returned to Chicago and tried her hand at fiction-writing, music and acting, while earning a living writing for various local papers. She also worked as a radio writer and producer, and married three times. Her first hard-won success came in 1939, with the novel Eight Faces at Three, featuring a trio of protagonists – Jake Justus, Helene Brand and John Joseph Malone – who would go on to star in the majority of her fiction. Over the next decade Rice went on to produce between one and four mysteries a year, in a style that uniquely combined the hard-boiled detective tradition with surreal, screwball comedy. She had a devoted readership, and in 1946 became the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

      Rice’s health deteriorated, however. In something of a mirroring of her often wild characters, she became a chronic alcoholic, and even attempted suicide more than once. Having produced more than twenty novels, she died in Chicago before her fiftieth birthday.

      Once Upon a Train

      CRAIG RICE AND STUART PALMER

      ‘It was nothing, really,’ said John J. Malone with weary modesty. ‘After all, I never lost a client yet.’

      The party in Chicago’s famed Pump Room was being held to celebrate the miraculous acquittal of Stephen Larsen, a machine politician accused of dipping some thirty thousand dollars out of the municipal till. Malone had proved to the jury and to himself that his client was innocent – at least, innocent of that particular charge.

      It was going to be a nice party, the little lawyer kept telling himself. By the way Larsen’s so-called friends were bending their elbows, the tab would be colossal. Malone hoped fervently that his fee for services rendered would be taken care of today, before Larsen’s guests bankrupted him. Because there was the matter of two months’ back office rent . . .

      ‘Thank you, I will,’ Malone said, as the waiter picked up his empty glass. He wondered how he could meet the redhead at the next table, who looked sultry and bored in the midst of a dull family party. As soon as he got his money from Larsen he would start a rescue operation. The quickest way to make friends, he always said, was

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