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020    9781728278537|q(trade paperback) 
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082 00 823/.912|223/eng/20230105 
092    |fF|aLORAC 
100 1  Lorac, E. C. R.,|d1894-1958,|eauthor. 
245 10 Crook o' Lune /|cE.C.R. Lorac ; with an introduction by 
       Martin Edwards. 
264  1 Naperville, Illinois :|bPoisoned Pen Press,|c[2023] 
300    xiii, 257 pages :|billustration ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  A Lancashire mystery 
500    "First published in 1953 by Collins, London"--Title page 
       verso. 
520    "Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based 
       partly on the author's own experiences of life in the Lune
       Valley, E. C. R. Lorac's classic rural mystery returns to 
       print for the first time since 1953. This edition includes
       an introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards. 
       "I'm minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when 
       we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and
       that--tis human tongues and words that's creeping like 
       flames in brushwood." It all began up at High Gimmerdale 
       with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding 
       fells above the bend in the Lune River--the Crook o' Lune.
       Then came the fire at Aikengill house and with the leaping
       of the flames, death, disorder, and dangerous gossip came 
       to the quiet moorlands. Visiting his friends, the Hoggetts,
       while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his 
       retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald's trip 
       becomes a busman's holiday when he is drawn to investigate
       the deadly blaze and the deep-rooted motives behind the 
       rising spate of crimes"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Macdonald, Robert (Fictitious character)|vFiction. 
650  0 Sheep stealing|vFiction. 
650  0 Arson investigation|vFiction. 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
830  0 British Library crime classics. 
830  0 Lancashire mystery.