E. C. R. Lorac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetE. C. R. Lorac
British writer
Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1894
Place of Birth: Hendon, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 02-Jul-1958
Profession: detective writer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About E. C. R. Lorac
- Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) (who wrote under the pseudonyms E.
- C.
- R.
- Lorac and Carol Carnac) was a British crime writer.
- The youngest daughter of Harry and Beatrice Rivett, née Foot, (1868–1943), she was born in Hendon, Middlesex, (now London) on May 6, 1894.
- 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 author, writing 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.
- Remaining unmarried, she lived her last years with her elder sister, Gladys Rivett (1891-1966), in Lonsdale, Lancashire.
- In her latter years, she wrote several mysteries feature Chief Inspector Macdonald with the Lune Valley, Lancashire, as its setting.
- Edith Rivett died at the Caton Green Nursing Home, Caton-with-Littledale, near Lancaster.
- According to the probate records for her will, she left an estate valued at £10,602, 16 shillings. In 2018, the British Library included three novels by E.C.R.
- Lorac in its "British Library Crime Classics" series of re-issued works, including Fire in the Thatch, Bats in the Belfry, and Murder by Matchlight.
- The back cover of the re-issued, Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery (originally published in 1946), declares that, "Her books have been almost entirely neglected since her death, but deserve rediscovery as fine examples of classic British crime fiction in its golden age."
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