Crook o' Lune

A Lancashire Mystery

E.C.R. Lorac, Martin Edwards

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British Library Publishing
10 July 2022

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: British Library Crime Classics

“I’m minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that – ’tis human tongues and words that’s creeping like flames in brushwood.”

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands around the bend in the Lune river – the Crook o’ Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house and with the leaping of the flames, death, disorder and dangerous gossip came to the quiet moorlands.

Visiting his friends, the Hoggetts, while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald’s trip becomes a busman’s holiday when he is drawn to investigate the deadly blaze and the deep-rooted motives behind the rising spate of crimes.

Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author’s own experiences of life in the Lune valley, E.C.R. Lorac’s classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time since 1953.

By: E.C.R. Lorac
Introduction by: Martin Edwards
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 104
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712354868
ISBN 10: 0712354867
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

E C R Lorac was a penname of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958), who also wrote as Carol Carnac. She was a prolific author of Golden Age mysteries publishing over 60 novels throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s. She was also a member of the famous Detection Club. Her books include Crossed Skis, Post After Post-Mortem and Murder by Matchlight, all available as British Library Crime Classics.