E C R Lorac

Edith Caroline Rivett (1884–1959) (who wrote under the pseudonyms E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac) was a British crime writer. She was born in Hendon, Middlesex, (now London). She attended the South Hampstead High School, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She was a member of the Detection Club. She was a very prolific writer, writing forty-eight mysteries under her first pen name, and twenty-three under her second. She was an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.