Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac (aka Edith Caroline Rivett)

LORAC, E.C.R [i.e. Edith Caroline RIVETT]. Fell Murder. London, Collins for the Crime Club, 1947.

Second impression of Rivett’s twenty-fourth novel featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, with a dust jacket designed by J. Z. Atkinson.

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.

Octavo, pp. 160; near fine; red cloth, lettered in black to spine, with the original printed dust jacket (spine slightly rolled, spine ends sunned, jacket lightly spotted, sunned at spine, with a few nicks to lower edge and a short closed tear to head of rear joint).