Murder in the Mill-Race

{{Short description|1952 novel}}

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| name = Murder in the Mill-Race

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| caption = First edition

| author = E.C.R. Lorac

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Chief Inspector MacDonald

| genre = Detective

| publisher = Collins Crime Club (UK)
Doubleday (US)

| release_date = 1952

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| media_type = Print

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| preceded_by =The Dog It Was That Died

| followed_by = Crook O'Lune

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Murder in the Mill-Race (sometimes written as Murder in the Mill Race) is a 1952 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.Nichols & Thompson p.476Hubin p.254 It is the thirty seventh in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, one of the numerous detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.Reilly p.260 It was released in the United States under the alternative title Speak Justly of the Dead. Originally published by Collins Crime Club, it was reissued in 2019 by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.