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Death of an Author

By: E. C. R. Lorac
Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
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Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse - has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. Reported missing by his secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself looking for publicity, it appears that crime is afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a potentially fictional victim, as E. C. R. Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humour and red herrings, poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a man (since a woman could apparently not have written mysteries the way that she did).

©1935 The Estate of E. C. R. Lorac (P)2023 Soundings Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Crime
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The plot structure is the traditional Golden Era type and is kept front-and-centre. It still maintains Lorac's lively interplay between characters.

This is the first of her stories, I have heard, with a different reader who quickly settles into the job.

Enjoyable 1930s British Puzzle Story

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