02262cam a2200325 4500 616340311 TxAuBib 20230306120000.0 220623s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022029621 9781728267609 PAP 14.99 1728267609 PAP 14.99 TxAuBib Lorac, E. C. R., 1894-1958, (Edith Caroline Rivett.) Post after post-mortem [BOOK] / E.C.R. Lorac, With an Introduction by Martin Edwards. Pbk ed. Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2023] xiii, 305 pages ; 21 cm. Robert MacDonald ; 11 British Library crime classics "An Oxfordshire mystery"--Cover. ""Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don't try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood." The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews, and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a rare convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth-middle sister who writes "books which are just books"- decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life,while the rest of the brood scatter to the winds again. Their next return is heralded by the tragic news that Ruth has taken her life after an evening at the Surrays's hosting a set of publishers and writers, one of whom is named as Ruth's literary executor in the will she left behind. Despite some suspicions from the family, the verdict at the inquest is suicide-but when Ruth's brother Richard receives a letter from the deceased which was delayed in the post, he enlists the help of CID Robert Macdonaldto investigate what could only be an ingeniously planned murder"-- Provided by publisher. 20230306. Police Great Britain Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Mystery fiction. Edwards, Martin, 1955-, other. Robert MacDonald ; 11. British Library crime classics.