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(Crime Fiction.) Edith Caroline Rivett, a collection of 21 crime fiction titles, seventeen under the pseudonym "E.C.R. Lorac", of which fourteen 1st editions, including 'Shroud of Darkness', London, Collins Crime Club, 1954, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Death in Triplicate', L, Collins Crime Club, 1958, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Death of an Author', L, Sampson Low, [1935], 1st edition, orig. cloth, 'Tryst for a Tragedy', L, Crime Club, 1940, 1st edition, orig. cloth, 'Death at Dyke's Corner', L, Crime Club, 1940, 1st edition, rebound contemporary cloth, subscription/circulating library binding?, 'Death Came Softly', L, Crime Club, 1943, 1st edition, orig. cloth, and further Collins Crime Club 1st editions in orig. cloth of 'Relative to Poison', 1947, 'Death Before Dinner', 1948, 'Still Waters', 1949, 'Policemen in the Precinct', 1949, 'Murder in the Mill Race', 1952, 'Crook O' Lune', 1953, 'Picture of Death', 1957 (2 copies), plus 'Fire in the Thatch', L, Crime Club, 1948, 2nd impression, orig. cloth, d/w, and 1954 reprint of 'The Dog it was that Died', orig. cloth; plus four titles under the pseudonym "Carol Carnac", including 'Rigging the Evidence', L, Crime Club, 1955, 1st edition, orig. cloth, 'The Burning Question', L, Crime Club, 1957, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 2 others, plus a Swallowtail paperback 2000 reissue of 'Death on the Oxford Road' (21)
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