Trivia

Ghost-wrote the novel "Crime On My Hands" which starred real-life persona George Sanders (who worked with Rice on the Falcon series). In the novel, actor Sanders solves a murder on a film set.

The "Author's Dedication" of the novel she ghost-wrote for George Sanders is "For Craig Rice, without whom it would not have been possible".

Generally accepted as the ghost-writer for Gypsy Rose Lee's "The G-String Murders". An article in "The Armchair Detective" in the 1980s suggests otherwise, but presents no definitive evidence. A 2001 biography of Rice ("Who Was That Lady?: Craig Rice, Queen of the Screwball Mystery") refutes the ghostwriting claim by showing that Lee and Rice were not in the same locale during the 1940-1941 time frame.

3 Children: daughters Nancy Melville Follows (June 26, 1928) and Iris Patricia Follows (June 25, 1929) from her first marriage; son David Elton Ferguson (April 8, 1932) was born from a relationship with Albert Ferguson. They never married, as he never divorced his first wife.