Alone by Lorac E C R (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. (White Circle 285c). [moderately worn, encased in a plastic protective cover (as received, and which I've opted to leave in place, especially since it's taped to the book's inside front cover); previous seller's large business card affixed to inside front cover, one-time owner's ink notes on inside rear cover]. (A White Circle Crime Club) Series Mass Market PB Undated paperback reprint of this Lorac novel, originally published by Collins in 1954. A fairly late entry in this author's long-running series of Inspector MacDonald mysteries (she died in 1958), this deals with two young couples who to "escape from their drab and squalid London lodgings," take up residence in The Old Court House in Devon; attracted by its cheap rent, they are initially disdainful of its "mystery and sinister past" -- but then they discover a dead body in one of the outbuildings. The works of this prolific mystery author, who also wrote as "Carol Carnac," remained largely out of print between her death in 1958 and the early 2020s, when a number of her books (as both Lorac and Carnac) were reprinted in the British Library Crime Classics series. This is evidently one of her scarcest titles, with no copies of any edition listed online at the time of this listing. This book bears no publication or copyright date, although its catalog number (285c) marks it as one of the final dozen or so titles issued in the White Circle series, which ended in 1959.