E.C.R. Lorac Crook o' Lune (Paperback) British Library Crime Classics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Crook o' LuneCondition: NewSubtitle: A Lancashire MysteryEAN: 9780712354868ISBN: 9780712354868Publisher: British Library PublishingFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/10/2022Description: “I’m minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that – ’tis human tongues and words that’s creeping like flames in brushwood.”It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands around the bend in the Lune river – the Crook o’ Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house and with the leaping of the flames, death, disorder and dangerous gossip came to the quiet moorlands. Visiting his friends, the Hoggetts, while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald’s trip becomes a busman’s holiday when he is drawn to investigate the deadly blaze and the deep-rooted motives behind the rising spate of crimes. Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author’s own experiences of life in the Lune valley, E.C.R. Lorac’s classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time since 1953.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 190mmItem Length: 130mmAuthor: E.C.R. LoracContributor: Martin Edwards (Introduction by)Genre: FictionBook Series: British Library Crime ClassicsTopic: Crime Thrillers & MysteryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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