A Bit of Wire-pulling
By E.C.R. Lorac
1950
First Published
3.11
Average Rating
263
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A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. “It’s a very rare thing for a murder to be committed actually in the presence of a police officer.” Or so it was thought…After the police fail to trace the writer behind a series of threatening letters to wealthy industrialist Sir Charles Leighton, he demands constant police protection. And thus it is up to Inspector Lang to accompany the man to a bridge party on New Year’s Eve—and track down his killer…
Avg Rating
3.11
Number of Ratings
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Author
E.C.R. Lorac
Author · 26 books
Edith Caroline Rivett (who wrote under the pseudonyms E.C.R. Lorac, Carol Carnac, Carol Rivett, and Mary le Bourne) was a British crime writer. She was born in Hendon, Middlesex (now London). She attended the South Hampstead High School, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She was a member of the Detection Club. She was a very prolific writer, having written forty-eight mysteries under her first pen name, and twenty-three under her second. She was an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
