num_pages: 222
description: 'I hate murders and I hate murderers but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded mind.'Vivian Lestrange  celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse  has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. Reported missing by his secretary Eleanor whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself it appears that crime and murder is afoot when Lestranges housekeeper is also found to have disappeared.Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a potentially fictional victim as E C R Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humour and red herrings poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a man (since a woman could apparently not have written mysteries the way that she did).Incredibly rare today this mystery returns to print for the first time since 1935.
language: English
title: Death of an Author
publisher: None