Title Matter

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Edith Caroline Rivett was born in Hendon in 1894, and gave us about seventy novels.

This book, "Fire in the Thatch, a Devon mystery", appeared in 1946, and has seventeen chapters. It was published under the pen-name "E. C. R. Lorac".

A list of her novels:

As E. C. R. Lorac -
    The Murder on the Burrows (1931)
    The Affair on Thor's Head (1932)
    The Greenwell Mystery (1932)
    The Case of Colonel Marchand (1933)
    Death on the Oxford Road (1933)
    Murder in St. John's Wood (1934)
    Murder in Chelsea (1934)
    The Organ Speaks (1935)
    Death of an Author (1935)
    Crime Counter Crime (1936)
    A Pall for a Painter (1936)
    Post After Post-Mortem (1936)
    These Names Make Clues (1937)
    Bats in the Belfry (1937)
    The Devil and the C.I.D. (1938)
    Slippery Staircase (1938)
    John Brown's Body (1939)
    Black Beadle (1939)
    Tryst for a Tragedy (1940)
    Death at Dyke's Corner (1940)
    Case in the Clinic (1941)
    Rope's End, Rogue's End (1942)
    The Sixteenth Stair (1942)
    Death Came Softly (1943)
    Fell Murder (1944)
    Checkmate to Murder (1944)
    Murder by Matchlight (1945)
    Fire in the Thatch (1946)
    The Theft of the Iron Dogs (1946)
    Relative to Poison (1947)
    Death Before Dinner (1948)
    Part for a Poisoner (1948)
    Still Waters (1949)
    Policemen in the Precinct (1949)
    Accident by Design (1950)
    Murder of a Martinet (1951)
    The Dog It Was That Died (1952)
    Murder in the Mill-Race (1952)
    Crook O'Lune (1953)
    Shroud of Darkness (1954)
    Let Well Alone (1954)
    Ask a Policeman (1955)
    Murder in Vienna (1956)
    Dangerous Domicile (1957)
    Picture of Death (1957)
    Murder on a Monument (1958)
    Death in Triplicate (1958)
    Dishonour Among Thieves (1959)

As Carol Carnac -
    Triple Death (1936)
    Murder at Mornington (1937)
    The Missing Rope (1937)
    When the Devil Was Sick (1939)
    The Case of the First Class Carriage (1939)
    Death in the Diving Pool (1940)
    A Double for Detection (1945)
    The Striped Suitcase (1946)
    Clue Sinister (1947)
    Over the Garden Wall (1948)
    Upstairs Downstairs (1950)
    Copy for Crime (1950)
    It's Her Own Funeral (1951)
    Crossed Skis (1952)
    Murder as a Fine Art (1953)
    A Policeman at the Door (1953)
    Impact of Evidence (1954)
    Murder among Members (1955)
    Rigging the Evidence (1955)
    The Double Turn (1956)
    The Burning Question (1957)
    Long Shadows (1958)
    Death of a Lady Killer (1959)

As Carol Rivett -
    Outer Circle (1939)
    A Time Remembered (1940)
    Island Spell (1951)