Crook o' Lune

My thanks to Poisoned Pen Press for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. Crook O’ Lune (1953) is as much a book of Lancashire’s farms and fells as it is a (murder) mystery featuring Edith Caroline Rivett or E. C. R. Lorac’s Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, with Lorac’s wonderful powers of descr......more

Though I would never call this mystery a page turner, I still enjoyed it immensely. Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald is staying with friends in rural Lancashire to investigate whether he might like to buy a small dairy farm as a retirement project. While he’s in High Gimmerdale, he is pulled in to i......more

I rarely rate or review books on Goodreads, but this one I shall, simply so at least one more person reads Lorac, whom I love. High quality writing, really vivid places, a pleasant enough detective, and a good enough mystery makes for Golden Age detective fiction worth recommending.......more

In recent years, the British Library has been doing a sterling job with its reissues of various vintage mysteries by the English crime writer Edith Caroline Rivett. While many of these novels were written under Rivett’s main pen name E. C. R. Lorac, others were published in the guise of Carol Carnac......more