LORAC, E. C. R. Fell Murder. London: Collins for the Crime Club. 1947.
8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in black to spine, with the original printed dust jacket designed by J. Z. Atkinson; pp. 160; spine ends slightly rubbed and sunned, jacket lightly spotted, with a few small nicks to edges and one short closed tear.
First edition, second impression of the twenty-fourth novel featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard.
The story unfolds in rural Lancashire against the backdrop of the Second World War. When Robert Garth, the patriarch of the Garth family, is discovered dead, Scotland Yard sends MacDonald to the north to investigate.
Edith Caroline Rivett was a prominent British author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She published under the pseudonyms E.C.R. Lorac, Carol Carnac, and Mary Le Bourne.
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