Murder By Matchlight by E. R. C. Lorac Introduction by Martin Edwards
During a blackout in November 1945, Bruce Mallaig sits alone on a bench in London’s Regent’s Park, and is soon the observer of a series of perculiar and frightening events. He hears someone on a nearby...
View ArticleBats in the Belfry by E. C. R. Lorac
Neil Rockingham asks Robert Grenville to track down a man named Debrette. It seems that Debrette has been harassing their friend Bruce Attleton, and Neil thinks that it may involve blackmail....
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Elderly farmer Robert Garth is “a hard man and a stubborn man, a man moreover who set his face against reform and change”. While respected throughout rural Lunesdale for his abilities and hard work, he...
View ArticleFire in the Thatch by E. C. R. Lorac
Towards the end of WWII, landowner Colonel St Cyres grants the tenancy of Little Thatch to invalided serviceman Nicholas Vaughan. Vaughan immediately sets out to restore the neglected farm, which...
View ArticleA Bundle of Reviews #2 Christopher Bush & E. C. R. Lorac at a glance
Cut Throat by Christopher Bush (1932) The hamper delivered to Lord Zyon’s home should have contained evidence of illicit trade activity, sent to him by Sir William Griffith. Instead, it contains Sir...
View ArticleShroud of Darkness by E. C. R. Lorac (1954)
Five strangers alight from a train compartment and disappear into a Paddington station shrouded in thick fog. Moments later one of them is found seriously injured with his head bashed in, stripped of...
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