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Engeland, Engelse schrijfsters, Engelse thriller

E.C.R. Lorac – Still Waters

E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters review, recensie en informatie Lake District detective uit 1949 van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 10 december 2025 verschijnt bij British Library Publishing de heruitgave van de thriller van E.C.R. Lorac, de uit Engeland afkomstige detectiveschrijfster. Het is deel 32 in de reeks boeken met Chief Inspector MacDonald van Scotland Yard in de hoofdrol. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Still Waters, hoofdinspecteur MacDonald detective van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster E.C.R. Lorac, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters

Still Waters

A Lake District Mystery

  • Auteur: E.C.R. Lorac (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse detective
  • Eerste editie: 1949
  • Uitgever: British Library Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 10 december 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst Lake District detective uit 1949 van E.C.R. Lorac

A rare 1950s classic from E. C. R. Lorac’s beloved Inspector Robert Macdonald series, following on from Theft of the Iron Dogs and Fell Murder. Featuring the author’s authentic depiction of her lake district home in Lunesdale, Lancashire. An atmospheric mystery full of memorable characters and period charm.

Trouble is brewing once more for the Hoggetts and their friend Chief Inspector Macdonald in Lunesdale, deep in the Lancashire fell country. The treacherous slopes and still waters of a quarry pool have become the backdrop for strange happenings by night, and after an architect surveying the area is nearly hoisted into the cold waters by an unseen assailant, the suspicions of local farmers become a matter for the CID. Lorac’s authentic writing of the Lunesdale countryside is paired with a twisting plot in this classic of lake district crime fiction, first published in 1949.

E.C.R. Lorac is the pseudonym of Edith Caroline Rivett who was born E.C.R. Lorac Still Waters English Lake District Detective from 1949 first editionon 6 May 1894 in Hendon, Middlesex, England. She is one of the writers of the golden age of detective fiction and wrote numirous detective novels. She publishe her first crime novel The Murder on the Burrows in 1931. Most of her nvels are about Chief Inspector MacDonald van Scotland Yard. About ten of them are reissued as British Library Crime Classic. She died on 2 July 1958 in the age of 64 at the Caton Green Nursing Home, in Caton-with-Littledale, near Lancaster.

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Susan Gilruth – Death in Ambush

Susan Gilruth Death in Ambush review, recensie en informatie Engelse kerstthriller uit 1952. Op 10 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Birtish Library Publishing de heruitgave van de detective Susan Gilruth uit 1952 die zich in Kent afspeelt tijdens de kerstdagen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Susan Gilruth Death in Ambush review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Death in Ambush, de kerstdetective van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Susan Gilruth, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Susan Gilruth Death in Ambush

Death in Ambush

British Library Crime Classics

  • Auteur: Susan Gilruth (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse detective, kerstthriller
  • Eerste editie: 1952
  • Uitgever: British Library Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 10 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst de Engelse kerstdetective uit 1952 van Suisan Gilruth

In a tranquil Kentish village, Dr Sandys and his wife are preparing for Christmas with their guest, Liane ‘Lee’ Crauford. Festivities start badly when their party is spoiled by an enigmatic widow new to the village, and the atmosphere hits rock bottom when the pompous local nobleman and ceramic-collector Sir Henry Metcalfe unexpectedly dies.

Sensing potential villains among Metcalfe’s circle, Lee teams up with Detective-Inspector Hugh Gordon to discover the killer playing merry hell with her holiday in this lost vintage mystery, republished for the first time since 1952.

Susan Gilruth was born in 1911 in England. She was a British writer who wrote several crimenovels. The first was published in 1951 and the last in 1963. Her novels were no real bestellers and het work dissapeared a bit in obscurity. But now her Christmas Detective Novel is published in the British Library Classic Crime series and ready to be rediscoverd.

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Edmund Crispin – The Moving Toyshop

Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop review, recensie en informatie Engelse Gervase Fen detective uit 1949 die zich in Oxford afspeelt. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de Gervase Fen detective The Moving Toyshop van de uit Engeland afkomstige detectiveschrijver Edmund Crispin. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop review en recensie

  • “A clever, funny and rightly famous story set in Oxford 30 years before Morse started pounding the beat.” (The Times, 100 Best Crime Novels of the Twentieth Century)
  • “A classic crime novel with a surreal streak… It’s a clever, energetic romp, written with wit” (Val McDermid, The Week)
  • “One of the undiscovered treasures of British crime fiction: Crispin’s storytelling is intelligent, humane, surprising and rattling good fun.” (A.L. Kennedy)

Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop

The Moving Toyshop

Gervase Fen detective

  • Auteur: Edmund Crispin (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse Oxford thriller uit 1949
  • Taal: Engels
  • Omvang: 244 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Oxford detective uit 1949 van Edmund Crispin

Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will be a relaxing holiday in the city of dreaming spires. Late one night, however, he discovers the dead body of an elderly woman lying in a toyshop and is coshed on the head. When he comes to, he finds that the toyshop has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store. The police are understandably skeptical of this tale but Richard’s former schoolmate, Gervase Fen (Oxford professor and amateur detective), knows that truth is stranger than fiction (in fiction, at least). Soon the intrepid duo are careening around town in hot pursuit of clues but just when they think they understand what has happened, the disappearing-toyshop mystery takes a sharp turn…

Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful – Before Morse, Oxford’s murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.

Edmund Crispin was born on 2 October 1921 in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England as Robert Bruce Montgomery. He was a crime writer and composer. He was most well known for is Gervase Fen novel. The name Edmund Crispin was a pseudonym for his writing activities.  He died on 15 september 1976 in West Hampstead, London from alcohol-related problems aged 56.

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