When the Devil Was Sick by Carol Carnac

When the Devil Was Sick by Carol Carnac

Clere House in northern England is a place rife with superstition, and every Lammas Night a meal is laid out there for a ghostly monk, who is thought to haunt the property. But this year when Lammas Night comes around, the phantom’s repast is accompanied by the unfortunate occurrence of Mrs. Saint Claire, matriarch of the house, falling to her death. And when local GP Henry Sanderson turns up with his friend and colleague Richard Vaile to inspect the body, Vaile discovers another corpse behind a curtain – that of a man in monk’s costume, face-down in his dinner.

The first novel to be republished in the Inspector Charles Ryvet series by Carol Carnac – a pseudonym used by Edith Caroline Rivett, who also wrote as ECR Lorac – this is an atmospheric country house mystery with some grippingly dysfunctional family dynamics at play. Can the master detective put superstition and the supernatural to one side, and find a more earthly solution to the two deaths?

Carol Carnac was a pen name used by Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958), a prolific English crime writer who also wrote as ECR Lorac. She was a member of the prestigious Detection Club, and was lauded for the detailed and atmospheric settings of her mysteries. Her books include Impact of Evidence, Murder as a Fine Art, Crossed Skis, Fell Murder and The Double Turn, all available as British Library Crime Classics.

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ISBN 13	9780712369862
Title	When the Devil Was Sick
Author	Carol Carnac
Series	British Library Crime Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	British Library Publishing
Year published	2026-12-10
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.