The Double Turn (1956) by Carol Carnac

Unusually for Carnac (a.k.a. E. C. R. Lorac) this is an impossible crime mystery. Martin Edwards, in his introduction to the British Library reprint, shares that ‘the American edition, which appeared in 1957, was given a new title, The Late Miss Trimming.’ Regarding the impossible crime aspect, he opines that: ‘Carnac was a very different writer from, say, John Dickson Carr.  Her interest lies less in the technicalities of howdunit (and even, dare I say it, the question of whodunit) than in ...