Speak Justly of the Dead by online 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.[1] She was a member of the Detection Club. She was a very prolific writer, having written forty-eight mysteries under her online first pen name, and twenty-three under her second. She was an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.