Death of an Author (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Book 92 of 107: British Library Crime Classics

Lorac, E C R

 
9781464216268: Death of an Author (British Library Crime Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1464216266 ISBN 13: 9781464216268
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2024

Synopsis

E. C. R. Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humor and red herrings, poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers, who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a male author.

Vivian Lestrange--celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse--has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. After he was reported missing by his secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself, crime and murder are afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found to have disappeared.

Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a potentially fictional victim.

With copies of the first and only edition incredibly rare today, Death of an Author returns to print for the first time since 1935. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger and Edgar(R) Award-winning author Martin Edwards.

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About the Author

E.C.R. LORAC was a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958) who was a prolific writer of crime fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a member of the prestigious Detection Club. Her books have been almost entirely neglected since her death, but deserve rediscovery as fine examples of classic British crime fiction in its golden age.

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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1464216266
ISBN 13 
9781464216268
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256