E.C.R. Lorac

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1949
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • And Then Put Out the Light

    It was really no concern of Mrs. Mayden whether Gillian Arkholme has spent a weekend at the Powys Arms with a married man or not, or that Alison Bentham was in love with her best friend's husband, or even that Dean's wife bought her meat on t...

  • Murder by Matchlight

    On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an approaching stranger suddenly disappears beneath a footbridge. Seconds later another figure appears on the same overpass, stops to sm...

  • A Bit of Wire-Pulling

    • / Cozy Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street's Christmas shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder. This collec...

  • Bats in the Belfry

    Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels -- but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce's failure, and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regen...

  • Fire in the Thatch

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS. The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon -- renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. V...

  • Murder in the Mill-Race

    "Never make trouble in the village" is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about your neighbor's sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It'd make trouble, and small societies want to avoid tro...

  • Murder in the Mill Race

    A woman is found dead one morning, in the Mill Race, at the exact place where a young woman drowned a year previously. Are the two cases interlinked? The local police are up against it, as the local villagers are determined to say nothing, so the cas...

  • Fell Murder

    The mystery begins with the discovery of the body of old Robert Garth in the trampled mud of an ancient outhouse. The Garth family live at Garthmere Hall, which was ruled by Robert with a rod of iron. The Hall is a gloomy medieval building....

  • Accident by Design

    Templedean Place in the Cotswold Hills of England was among the last of the truly aristocratic estates, where old family traditions still ď¬,ourished. When Gerald Vanstead arrived from Australia with his family, to attend his father in his last illne...



  • Checkmate to Murder

    On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints the port...

  • Two-Way Murder

    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderIt is a dark and misty night -- isn't it always? -- and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There waits the charming Dil...

  • Death Came Softly

    This crime puzzle features Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, who is a “London Scot” and an avowed bachelor with a love for walking in the English countryside. But what will he make of the body found dead in a cave?...

  • These Names Make Clues

    MacDonald is invited to the London home of a publisher to take part in a  treasure hunt based on various intellectual clues against various authors, everyone using the alias of a celebrated historical writer. When an obn...

  • I Could Murder Her

    Muriel Farrington is a domineering woman who, unfortunately for them, has her entire family living with her in her stately home. She tries, often successfully, to run the lives of her children, her stepchildren, her in-laws, and her husband, and she ...

  • The Last Escape

    In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police officer setting up his retirement plans on a hill farm to the south of Lunesdale. Not quite ready to retire, he buys the farm and installs a young couple to ...

  • Murder in Vienna

    Superintendent Macdonald, C.I.D., studied his fellow-passengers on the Vienna plane simply because he couldn’t help it, because he hadn’t conditioned himself to being on holiday. The distinguished industrialist he recognised: the stout man he put...

  • Murderer's Mistake

    It's not long after the end of WWII, rationing is still in force in the UK, and Chief Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is hot on the heels of a coupon racketeer, Gordon Ginner. Just then he gets a letter from Lancastrian farmer Giles Hoggett abou...

  • Rope's End, Rogue's End

    Wulfstane Manor, a rambling old country house with many unused rooms, winding staircases and a maze of cellars, had been bequeathed to Veronica Mallowood and her brother Martin. The last time the large family of Mallowoods had all foregathered under ...

  • Shroud of Darkness

    One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became bona fide manslaughter, and examination of the intimate lives of the passengers involved Chief Inspector MacDonald in a macabre game of hide-and-seek in...



  • Crook O'lune

    It all began with sheep-stealing. A hateful act among the shepherds of the fells, and yet not a matter of life and death. Then came arson and with the leaping of the flames, death and disorder reached the peaceful moors. Holidaying with his friends t...

  • Death of an Author

    E. C. R. Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humor and red herrings, poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers, who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a male author.Vivian Lestrange -- celebrated author of the popular mystery nov...

  • Post After Post-Mortem

    The Surrays, a husband and wife and their five offspring, are a prolific writer family, having published scores of novels, reviews and treatises. Ruth, the middle sister, has, however, recently given her elder brother, Richard, some cause for concern...

  • Crook o' Lune

    While visiting friends in Lancashire, and looking for a property to settle down in when he retires from Scotland Yard, MacDonald agrees to lend his assistance to investigate some sheep-stealing. Before long he is drawn into a case involving arson, bl...

  • The Theft Of The Iron Dogs

    First published in 1946 and set in the fell country of Lunesdale over the course of a rainy September, The Theft of the Iron Dogs is the very picture of a cosy crime mystery and showcases Lorac’s masterful attention to detail and deep affection for...

  • Crossed Skis

    The investigation of a dead body in London's  Bloomsbury takes Rivers to the  Austrian Alps  to hunt down the murderer amidst the visitors to a ski resort....

  • Death at Dyke's Corner

    When a stationary car is struck by an oncoming lorry at a very dangerous  hairpin bend  known as Dyke's Corner and the driver killed it seems an obvious accident. However, MacDonald's methodical investigations reveal it was in fact a...

  • Impact of Evidence

    AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then floods. Late one afternoon there is a terrible car smash on a cross-roads in these hills. Old Dr. Robinson is found dead in his big saloon, which, thr...

  • Case in the Clinic

    The story begins with the sudden death of an elderly clergyman named Anderby, who drops dead while hosing the garden ... death that is followed by another in circumstances which give rise to suspicion and to the local police calling upon Inspector Ma...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E.C.R. Lorac has published 28 books.

The next book by E.C.R. Lorac, Case in the Clinic, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by E.C.R. Lorac, And Then Put Out the Light, was published in January 1949.

No. E.C.R. Lorac does not write books in series.
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