Home Sweet Homicide

Bok av Craig Rice
Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when the kids hear gunshots at the house next door, they jump at the chance to launch their own amateur investigation-and after all, why shouldn't they? They know everything the cops do about crime scenes, having read about them in mother's novels. They know what her literary detectives would do in such a situation, how they would interpret the clues and handle witnesses. Plus, if the children solve the puzzle before the cops, it will do wonders for the sales of mother's novels. But this crime scene isn't a game at all; the murder is real, and when its details prove more twisted than anything in mother's fiction, they'll have to enlist Marion's help to sort them out. Or is that just part of their plan to hook her up with the lead detective on the case? The basis for the 1946 film with the same name, Home Sweet Homicide is the novel that launched Craig Rice to literary fame. The book, a comedic crime story that pokes fun at the conventions of the genre, finds "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction" at her most entertaining.
Med sitt vanliga underbara språk fångar hon läsaren och ger en underhållande berättelse innan hon till slut avslöjar vem mördaren är. Detta är debutromanen och även om hennes bästa radarpar inte är med så ger det ändå en liten inblick i hennes skrivsätt. I denna bok som heter mord lilla mor på svenska träffar vi familjen carstairs vars granne blir mördad. Mamman i familjen är deckarförfattare och barnen vill att hon ska lösa mysteriet vilket hon naturligtvis inte gör så barnen tar saken i egna händer och löser det åt henne. Många trovärdiga vändningar och stor igennkänningsfaktor i hur barn kan reagera och lösa problem.