Fell Murder

Hmm, this may be 5 stars. I’m waffling. This is my second Lorac novel set in Lancashire in the Lune river valley amongst the hard-working farmers in the remote fell country. Lorac’s nature writing is exquisite and her description of the farmers and their style of communication and community is so th......more

I am happy to have discovered (through the Reading the Detectives group) a new Golden Age mystery writer I can wholeheartedly endorse. E. C. R. Lorac is a writer who balances interesting characters, a sufficiently complex whodunit, and a likable detective with a strong sense of place and time. The se......more

The title of E.C.R. Lorac’s 23rd book in a series featuring Chief Inspector Robert MacDonald refers both to fells (hills in the dialect of Northern England) and fell, meaning “deadly, or destructive.” The novel proves as clever as the title. After 25 years away, Richard Garth comes back to the fells......more

Fell Murder was originally published in 1944 and has now been included in the growing number of British Library Crime Classics mystery novels. Once again there is a most informative introduction by Martin Edwards which proved beneficial to me. E. C. R. Lorac took a little deviation from the standard......more

A wonderfully written mystery! Incredible discriptions of the Countryside, the nature and the hard work that is farming. I loved the family at odds element of the story it kept me turning pages and wanting to know more about them (above and beyond the murder part) A really, really good read that kept......more