Still Waters (novel)

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Still Waters
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Author E.C.R. Lorac
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesChief Inspector MacDonald
GenreDetective
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1949
Media typePrint
Preceded by Part for a Poisoner  
Followed by Policemen in the Precinct  

Still Waters is a 1949 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett. [1] [2] It is the thirty second 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]

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Synopsis

It was one of several novels Lorac set in the Lancashire fell country around Lunesdale where she spent much of her time. It follows a woman who buys a farm near a former quarry and begins experiencing a series of strange events, and it seems she may be the victim of other potential owners of the farm who linger in the area.

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References

  1. Nichols & Thompson p.476
  2. Hubin p.254
  3. Reilly p.260

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