Just about every source mentioning Rice says that she wrote
"The G-String Murders" and "Mother Finds A Body." There's
some question as to whether she also wrote the mysteries
published under actor George Sanders's name. There's a new
Rice biography by Jeffrey Marks (I think) that should have
all the source material anybody would want. I'm not sure that
Rice's novels could be called hardboiled, but they're
probably the best examples we have of the screwball mystery.
Rice's life may qualify, however. Certainly noire.
An autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, "Gypsy," apparently
written by Lee herself, became a huge bestseller and was the
source for the Broadway musical of the same name. Lee was
always considered something of an intellectual. The stripper
who reads Schopenhauer in the musical "Pal Joey" is a direct
reference to her.
Dick Lochte
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