R Lorac site_link Carol Carnac site_link Carol Rivett and Mary le Bourne was a British crime writer She was born in Hendon Middlesex now London She attended the South Hampstead High School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London She was a member of site_link the Detection Club She was a very prolific writer having written forty eight mysteries under her first pen name and twenty three under her second She was an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Edith Caroline Rivett who wrote under the pseudonyms E. Fire in the thatch a devon mystery R Lorac site_link Carol Carnac site_link Carol Rivett and Mary le Bourne was a British crime writer She was born in Hendon Middlesex now London She attended the South Hampstead High School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London She was a member of site_link the Detection Club She was a very prolific writer having written forty eight mysteries under her first pen name and twenty three under her second She was an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction site_link One of the very few known facts about the life of Edith Caroline Rivett is that she was evacuated from London to South Devon during the war Among London and North Lancashire this region provides the setting for several of her novels As seen in Fire in the Thatch she apparently knows about its landscape and agriculture its vernacular architecture and its people Haycraft Howard in Murder for Pleasure suggests a formula for the detective genre 50% good detection 25% character 25% what you know best Mrs Rivett writing as E C R Lorac certainly fulfils the last 25% The setting in time is excellent too It s about 1944 and references to the war abound Rationing of petrol is even an integral part of the story Fire in the Thatch Robert Macdonald Book 27
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| Fire in the Thatch (Robert Macdonald Book 27) By E.C.R. Lorac |
| 1667625403 |
| 9781667625409 |
| English |
| 235 |
| Kindle Edition |
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| book fire in the lake |
| book fire in the dark |
| book fire in the minds of men |
| fire in the thatch a devon mystery |
.[1]Edith Caroline Rivett who wrote under the pseudonyms E.C.C