Автор: E. C. R. Lorac

Templedean Place in the Cotswold Hills of England was among the last of the truly aristocratic estates, where old family traditions still flourished. When Gerald Vanstead arrived from Australia with h …

Bruce Attleton dazzled London’s literary scene with his first two novels but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce’s failure, and the co …

A crime detective story featuring Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, a “London Scot” and an avowed bachelor with a love for walking in the English countryside and his assistant, Detective Inspector Re …

The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations, and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Here hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty a …

The last novel to feature Superintendent Robert Mac Donald finds the officer planning his retirement. After buying a hill farm to the south of Lunesdale, he rents it to a young couple to oversee his …

1945, with England still at war. Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald is tasked with solving an impossible crime—finding the killer of a man on the bridge. The only clue: a set of bicycle …

When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first, they see on …

Superintendent Macdonald, C.I.D., studied his fellow-passengers on the Vienna plane simply because he couldn’t help it, because he hadn’t conditioned himself to being on holiday. The distinguished in …

They were five strangers on a fogbound train— a psychiatrist’s pretty secretary, an agitated young man a tweedy lady with a deep voice a stockbrockerish businessman and an eel-like ‘spiv.’ On …

The story begins with the sudden death of an elderly clergyman named Anderby, who drops dead while hosing the garden … death that is followed by another in circumstances which give rise to suspicio …

One of the very few known facts about the life of Edith Caroline Rivett is that she was evacuated from London to South Devon during the war. Among London and North Lancashire this region provides the …

Muriel Farrington is a domineering woman who, unfortunately for them, has her entire family living with her in her stately home. She tries, often successfully, to run the lives of her children, her s …

Jeff Lorimer, newly released from prison, takes advice to heart: ‘Use your brains. Use them to your advantage.’ So he sets about doing just that. This classic mystery story by E.C.R. Lorac was origin …

Police Constable Tom Brandon overhears a chance conversation in a local pub. A few days later, he recalls the incident when an elderly widow dies in an apparent accident. An Accident that was planned …

Templedean Place in the Cotswold Hills of England was among the last of the truly aristocratic estates, where old family traditions still flourished. When Gerald Vanstead arrived from Australia with …

“We’ve taken the wrong fork. There’s a double hairpin bend somewhere.” There was! Immediately in front of them a car was drawn up on the opposite side of the road. As they swung round the wicked curv …