Home Sweet Homicide

Craig Rice. Rue Morgue Press, $14.95 (220pp) ISBN 978-0-915230-53-2

Rue Morgue offers two vintage mysteries: The Mano Murders (1952), by Juanita Sheridan, with its exotic Hawaiian setting and the lighthearted Home Sweet Homicide (1944; a 1946 film with Randolph Scott), by Craig Rice, the subject of Jeffrey Marks's 2001 biography, Who Was That Lady?

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