Murder by Matchlight (British Library Crime Classics)

Murder by Matchlight (British Library Crime Classics) by E.C.R. Lorac

London, 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk.

During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments, one of them has been murdered. Mallaig's view of the assailant was but a brief glimpse of a ghastly face in the glow of a struck match.

The murderer's noiseless approach and escape seem to defy all logic, and even the victim's identity is uncertain. Lorac's shrewd yet personable C.I.D. man MacDonald must set to work once again to unravel this near-impossible mystery.

E.C.R. Lorac was the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894 - 1958), a prolific crime fiction writer from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a member of the prestigious Detection Club. Her books have been almost entirely neglected since her death, but deserve rediscovery as fine examples of classic British crime fiction in its golden age.