Category: E C Lorac
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One of the joys of the British LIbrary Classic Crime series has been the discovery of E C R Lorac (she also writes under the name of Carol Carnac) and becoming acquainted with Superintendent Macdonald. Murder in Vienna was published in 1956 and has long been out of print. I managed to get hold of…
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E C R Lorac who also writes under the name Carol Carnac is one of my favourite crime authors unearthed and brought back into the public eye by the British Library Crime Classic series. Pretty sure when they started this series off they did not expect it to be so popular or do so well,…
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I am getting really tired of January and the cold weather. Winter seems to have gone on for a long time this year. I have been in Cambridge this week for a couple of days and the driving there was hampered by road works and the return journey not much fun as ice on the…
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A good week with three books published by three favourite authors. The first was Crook O'Lune by E C R Lorac, one of the writers rediscovered and republished by the British Library Crime Classics. Not all of them, interesting thought they are, have been to my liking but this author I do like. I read…
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I seem to have fallen into a pattern of one post a week and I keep feeling this will not do but I have had another of "those weeks" with loads on and a few irritants. Next week is looking a bit dubious as well as I am having a boiler and hot water tank…
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At the moment there is a hashtag on Twitter #beathebacklog as a whole slew of book lovers are trying to get their To be Read backlog reduced. Nobody thinks for one moment that it is ever going to happen but we thought we would see if we could get it down a bit. I have…
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I have just realised the days are moving quickly and I will soon be in 2021 before I talk about my reading this year. So here goes with the second lot. The Crown in Crisis; the Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman. This is one of the best, if not the best, of all…
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My sister came round for tea yesterday and pointed out to me that I had not posted for a week and when was I going to write again. The usual excuse at the moment, total sloth and generally feeling fed up with life and the world. Apropos of nothing I sat and watched Andy Murray…
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I have been catching up and sorting out the last couple of days and now feel organised enough in my mind to start the reading posts for this year. On checking my blog it seems I read about 240 books last year. A huge chunk of these were read on my cruise last January-March and…
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In a previous post I made it clear that this year, with the travelling I have been doing, I decided not to embark on any ambitious reading but merely to pick and dip into what took my fancy. Therefore, my books of the year for 2018 will not reflect any great, deep tomes of philosophical…
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I have been having a real Golden Age of Crime blitz in the last month or so. I recently reviewed Bats in the Belfry and The Thatched Roof Murder by E C Lorac. Link here. I decided to do some investigating and found that this was the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) (who…
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When I arrived back home I had plenty of books to unpack and there were two with those wonderful distinctive covers from the Classic Crime Series from the British Library. Last week I was able to sit down and give them my attention. E C Lorac was the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett, (easy…