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E.C.R. Lorac Rises Through The Ranks

Her WW2 mysteries are best of all.

Her WW2 mysteries are best of all.

This is the second episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six part Shedunnit series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.

Thanks to my guest, Martin Edwards. He is a crime writer and the author of, among many other books, The Golden Age of Murder. Find out more about all his work at martinedwardsbooks.com.

Books mentioned:
— The Murder on the Burrows by E.C.R. Lorac
— Crime Counter Crime by E.C.R. Lorac
— The Organ Speaks by E.C.R. Lorac
— These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac
— Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
— Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac
— Murder by Matchlight by E.C.R. Lorac
— Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac
— Murder in St John's Wood by E.C.R. Lorac
— Murder in Chelsea by E.C.R. Lorac

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Shedunnit is written and narrated by Caroline Crampton and edited by Euan MacAleece.

Release date:

5 months left to listen

23 minutes