Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural peace seem to make this a happy bachelor life.
On a nearby farm lives the bored, flirtatious June St Cyres, an exile from London while her husband is a Japanese POW. June's presence attracts fashionable visitors of dubious character, and threatens to spoil Vaughan's prized seclusion.
When Little Thatch is destroyed in a blaze, all Vaughan's work goes up in smoke - and Inspector Macdonald is drafted in to uncover a motive for murder.
Author: E. C. R. Lorac
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781464209673
ISBN10: 1464209677
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Classics
About the Author
E.C.R. LORAC was a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958) who was a prolific writer of crime fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a memberof the prestigious Detection Club. Her books have been almost entirely neglected since her death, but deserve rediscovery as fine examples of classic British crime fiction in its golden age.