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E C R (edith Caroline Rivett) Lorac

Female : Crime Novelist
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Hendon, Middlesex

Date of Birth : 1894 Date of Death : 1958 Age : 64

Pseudonyms : Carol Carnac. Carol Rivett

Education : South Hampstead HS & Central School of Arts & Crafts
UK Editions by Sampson Low
1931-1935
The Murder on the Burrows
(1931) (1932 Macaulay US)
The Affair at Thor's Head
(1932 Sampson Low)
The Greenwell Mystery
(1932) (1934 Macaulay)
Death on the Oxford Road
(1933 Sampson Low)
The Case of Colonel Marchand
(1933) (1933 Macaulay)
Murder in St John's Wood
(1934) (1934 Macaulay)
Murder in Chelsea
(1934) (1935 Macaulay)
The Organ Speaks
(1935 Sampson Low)
Death of an Author
(1935) (1937 Macaulay)

All UK Editions by Collins from here on
1936-1940
Crime Counter Crime
(1936)
Post After Post-Mortem
(1936)
A Pall for a Painter
(1936)
Bats in the Belfry
(1937) (1937 Macaulay)
These Names Make Clues
(1937)
The Devil and the CID
(1938)
Slippery Staircase
(1938)
John Brown's Body
(1938)
Black Beadle
(1939)
Death at Syke's Corner
(1940)
Tryst for a Tragedy
(1940)

1941-1945
Case in the Clinic
(1941)
Rope's End, Rogue's End
(1942)
The Sixteenth Stair
(1942)
Death Came Softly
(1943) (1943 Mystery House, NY)
Checkmate to Murder
(1944) (1944 Mystery House)
Fell Murder
(1944)
Murder by Matchlight
(1945) (1946 Mystery House)

1946-1950
Fire in the Thatch
(1946) (1946 Mystery House)
The Theft of the Iron Dogs
(1946) (in US as 'Murderer's Mistake' in 1947 by Mystery House)
Relative to poison
(1947) (1948 Doubleday)
Death Before Dinner
(1948) (1948 by Doubleday as 'A Screen for Murder')
Part for a Poisoner
(1948) (1949 Doubleday as 'Place for a Poisoner')
Still Waters
(1949)
Policemen on the Precinct
(1949) (1950 Doubleday as 'And Then Put out the Light')
Accident by Design
(1950) (1951 Doubleday)

1951-1955
Murder of a Martinet
(1951) (1951 Doubleday as 'I Could Murder Her')
The Dog it Was That Died
(1952) (1952 Doubleday)
Murder in the Millrace
(1952) (1953 Doubleday as 'Speak Justly of the Dead')
Crook O'Lune
(1953) (1953 Doubleday as 'Shepherd's Crook')
Shroud of Darkness
(1954) (1954 Doubleday)
Let well Alone
(1954)
Ask a Policeman
(1955)

1956-1959
Murder in Vienna
(1956)
Picture of Death
(1957)
Dangerous Domicile
(1957)
Death in Triplicate
(1958) (1959 Doubleday as 'People Will Talk')
Murder on a Monument
(1958)
Dishonour Among Thieves
(1959) (1959 Doubleday as 'The Last Esacpe')

As Carol Carnac
Triple Death
(1936 Butterworth)
Murder at Mornington
(1937 Skeffington)
The Missing Rope
(1937 Skeffington)
When the Devil was Sick
(1939 Peter Davies)
The Case of the First Class Carriage
(1939 Peter Davies)
Death in the Diving Pool
(1940 Peter Davies)
A Double for Detection
(1945 Macdonald)
The Striped Suitcase
(1946 Macdonald) (1947 Doubleday)
Clue Sinister
(1947 Macdonald)
Over the Garden Wall
(1948 Macdonald) (1949 Doubleday)
Upstairs, Downstairs
(1950 Macdonald) (1950 Doubleday)
Copy for Crime
(1950 Macdonald) (1951 Doubleday)
Collins from here on
It's Her Own Funeral
(1951)
Crossed Skis
(1952)
Murder as a Fine Art
(1953)
A Policeman at the Door
(1953) (1954 Doubleday)
Impact of Evidence
(1954) (1954 Doubleday)
Murder Among Members
(1955)
Rigging the Evidence
(1954) (1954 Doubleday)
The Double Turn
(1955) (1957 Doubleday as 'The Late Miss trimming')
The Burning Question
(1957)
Long Shadows
(1958) (1958 Doubleday as 'Affair at Helen's Court')
Death of a Lady Killer
(1959)

As Carol Rivett
Outer Circle
(1939 Hodder & Stoughton)
Time Remembered
(1940 Hodder & Stoughton