Fell Murder is a 1944 detective novel by E. C. R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.Nichols & Thompson p. 476 It was the 24th novel of her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard.Reilly p. 260 Originally published by Collins Crime Club, it was reissued in 2019 by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
The novel takes place in rural Lancashire during the Second World War. After Robert Garth, the patriarch of the Garth family, is found dead, Scotland Yard sends MacDonald north to investigate.
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Bibliography Nichols, Victoria & Thompson, Susan. Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder. Scarecrow Press, 1998. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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