Fire in the Thatch

Resumen del libro

The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage.

Hard work and rural peace seem to make this a happy bachelor life. On a nearby farm lives the bored, flirtatious June St Cyres, an exile from London while her husband is a Japanese POW. June's presence attracts fashionable visitors of dubious character, and threatens to spoil Vaughan's Prized seclusion.

When Little Thatch is destroyed in a blaze, all Vaughan's work goes up in smoke - and Inspector Macdonald is drafted in to uncover a motive for murder.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p E. C. R. LORAC es uno de los muchos pseudónimos de la escritora inglesa Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958). De carácter independiente y una fuerte conciencia social, publicó su primera novela policiaca en 1931, inaugurando así una larga carrera como autora de novela criminal que la ha situado entre las mejores firmas de la Edad de Oro de la novela de misterio británica. Fue miembro del Detection Club.x{0026}lt;/p