the novel was published by simon & schuster in 1944, and rice immediately started to try and find a movie producer to take on the story for a sum of $50,000. however, after no sales all through 1944, rice conceded to 20th century fox’s offer of $20,000 for the adaptation of "home sweet homicide". this sale earned rice a spot on the january 28th, 1946 cover of "time magazine". after a 50 year spell of dormancy out of print, "home sweet homicide" began to gain popularity again with jeffrey marks’s 2001 biography of craig rice, "who was that lady".