Golden Age of Detective Fiction

E.C.R. Lorac (Edith Caroline Rivett) was a British crime writer who was a member of the prestigious Detection Club, an exclusive club for writers of detective fiction. The Detection Club was founded in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G.K. Chesterton, to promote the genre and encourage high standards of writing.

Lorac was admitted to the Detection Club in 1936, and she went on to write over 60 crime novels under her own name and the pseudonyms Carol Carnac and Francine van Eps. Her most famous creation was Chief Inspector Macdonald, who appeared in several of her novels set in London and the countryside.

Lorac’s writing was known for its strong sense of place and character development, as well as its intricate plotting and clever twists. She was exceptionally skilled at creating an atmosphere of tension and suspense, and her novels…