45 Murderers, Craig Rice
45 Murderers, Craig Rice
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45 Murderers
A Collection of True Crime Stories

Author: Craig Rice

Narrator: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2021

Synopsis

From Hollywood’s Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true-crime profiles by “the grand dame of mystery” (Ed Gorman)Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. Among them …A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Year’s fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkley; an aspiring starlet tortured, bisected, and dumped in a vacant LA lot; and a New York couple poisoned to death by the mysterious “Veiled Murderess,” a convicted killer who never revealed her motives—or her true identity.Culled from Rice’s work as a crime reporter, “the stories in 45 Murderers have withstood time” as a century-spanning, cross-country tour of the sinister underbelly of the American Dream (Jeffrey Marks, author of Who Was That Lady?).

About Craig Rice

Craig Rice (1908–1957), born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, was an American author of mystery novels and short stories, sometimes described as the “Dorothy Parker of detective fiction.” She was the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine, on January 28, 1946.

About Johnny Heller

Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.

About Jo Anna Perrin

Jo Anna Perrin is an audiobook narrator whose readings include Disarming the Narcissist by Wendy T. Behary, You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin, American Freak Show by Willie Geist, and many others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Terri on January 30, 2020

An excellent book. Ms. Rice has such a great sense of wit and turn of phrase that it is very entertaining to read these accounts. Most crimes I had never heard of and very much in the 30s ish time frame which was nice. Some of the psychological comments were out of date with how much we have learned......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on November 18, 2018

This was a great read, full of intriguing true-life mysteries. Some have been solved and some are being hotly debated to this day. All are well-written in Craig Rice's distinctive hard-boiled style. Don't miss this one.......more

Goodreads review by Bettye on January 22, 2020

Outdated to some, vintage crime to others All of the true crimes in this book occurred prior to 1952, the year the book was published. While there are a few stories you have read about already, the majority of the crimes have flown below the radar of popularity. Each story is brief, meaning this is a......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B. on November 07, 2023

Interesting, gory, sometimes eerie tales of murder and mayhem. Narrators are entertaining and get involved. Not a late night read… 😲......more

Goodreads review by Randy Jones on December 31, 2024

An Entertaining Collection Of True Tales Of Murder In 45 Murderers, Craig Rice gives us the basic facts in tales of murder that happened between the early 1900s and the late 1940s across the United States. Writing with her usual style and wit, she lays out each case quickly and succinctly, telling us......more

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