A young man recently arrived at Paddington Station on a train from Exeter is discovered with his head bashed in. Any possible clues of identity have been taken from the body, and the assault was committed during a very heavy London Fog (specifically the Great Smog of London of December 1952). With these very few leads to follow, Macdonald begins his investigation. He deduces that the case may have its origins in either Devon or the capital, or perhaps both.
shroud, darkness, 1954, detective, novel, lorac, name, british, writer, edith, caroline, rivett, thirty, ninth, long, running, series, featuring, chief, inspector, macdonald, scotland, yard, more, orthodox, detectives, golden, detective, fiction, first, editio. Shroud of Darkness is a 1954 detective novel by E C R Lorac the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett 1 2 It is the thirty ninth in her long running series featuring Chief Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard one of the more orthodox detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction 3 Shroud of DarknessFirst editionAuthorE C R LoracCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishSeriesChief Inspector MacDonaldGenreDetectivePublisherCollins Crime Club UK Doubleday US Publication date1954Media typePrintPreceded byCrook O Lune Followed byLet Well Alone Synopsis editA young man recently arrived at Paddington Station on a train from Exeter is discovered with his head bashed in Any possible clues of identity have been taken from the body and the assault was committed during a very heavy London Fog specifically the Great Smog of London of December 1952 With these very few leads to follow Macdonald begins his investigation He deduces that the case may have its origins in either Devon or the capital or perhaps both References edit Nichols amp Thompson p 476 Hubin p 254 Reilly p 260Bibliography editCooper John amp Pike B A Artists in Crime An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dustwrappers 1920 1970 Scolar Press 1995 Hubin Allen J Crime Fiction 1749 1980 A Comprehensive Bibliography Garland Publishing 1984 Nichols Victoria amp Thompson Susan Silk Stalkings More Women Write of Murder Scarecrow Press 1998 Reilly John M Twentieth Century Crime amp Mystery Writers Springer 2015 nbsp This article about a mystery novel of the 1950s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it See guidelines for writing about novels Further suggestions might be found on the article s talk page vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shroud of Darkness amp oldid 1223498439, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
