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Loading... Crook o' Lune (1953)by E.C.R. Lorac
   Books Read in 2022 (4,766) No current Talk conversations about this book.  lindapanzo | Jan 23, 2024 |   esp pp 29, 92, 112 - Little Gidding again, 116, (  ) Overgaard | Dec 31, 2023 | An entertaining, slow paced, historical mystery with its likeable characters. Another enjoyable addition to this series. ( ) Vesper1931 | Jul 9, 2023 | Better than Midsommer Murders! Originally published in 1953, so don't look for any cell towers in this beautiful countryside. Chief Inspector MacDonald is on vacation visiting an old friend and kind of looking for a nice small farm to retire to. He finds the right neighborhood, but he also finds a bit of sheep stealing and arson as well. He's hardly averse to investigating and the local is more than happy to have him. It's a nice, low-key investigation with very interesting characters, suspects, and red herrings. Loved this classic! I requested and received an EARC from Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you! ( ) jetangen4571 | May 14, 2023 |  ) Helenliz | Apr 21, 2023 | no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesRobert MacDonald (38) Belongs to Publisher SeriesBritish Library Crime Classics (Novel)
"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. This edition includes an introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards. "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 fells above 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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Chief Inspector MacDonald is visiting friends and considering perhaps purchasing a farm for his retirement years when he gets involved in investigating a residential arson which resulted in a death and sheep stealing.
This is a book with tremendous (and beautiful) description and a leisurely pace (and I don't mean this as a criticism, it's one of the book's strengths). A Lorac book is always a treasure, a book to be savored. I'm so thankful that the British Library Crime Classics brings back such excellent old mysteries.
Highly recommended!!
(I received a copy of the book from the publisher, via Net Galley, in exchange for a fair and honest review.) (