The Double Turn

Name: The Double Turn
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Carol Carnac, E. C. R. Lorac

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British Library
01 June 2026

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: British Library Crime Classics

At Firenze, the reclusive artist Adrian Delafield's Florentine enclave in St John's Wood, the whispers of an impending tragedy are growing louder. The tension between the fanatical zealot of a housekeeper Miss Trimming and Delafield's sister Virgilia is just shy of fever pitch, when a cold morning at the house finds Trimming and Adrian sprawled at either end of the staircase

upstairs, an injury; downstairs, death.

The windows and doors were all locked from the inside, and yet Inspector Julian Rivers, trained to see the malice behind deadly accident, suspects that a murderer had a hand in the fell deed. But if this is true, Rivers is faced with both the inexplicable puzzle of motive, and the task of untangling an impossible crime in Carnac's compelling and twisting 1956 mystery exploring the demands of kinship, art-world secrets and religious mania.

By: Carol Carnac, E. C. R. Lorac
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 147
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712369008
ISBN 10: 0712369007
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Carol Carnac was a penname used by Edith Caroline Rivett (18941958), a prolific English crime writer who also wrote as E. C. R. Lorac. She was a member of the prestigious Detection Club, and was lauded for the detailed and atmospheric settings of her mysteries. Her books include Impact of Evidence, Murder as a Fine Art, Crossed Skis and Fell Murder, all available as British Library Crime Classics.