| Crossed Skis | |
| Author: | Carol Carnac |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inspector Julian Rivers |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Release Date: | 1952 |
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| Preceded By: | It's Her Own Funeral |
| Followed By: | Murder as a Fine Art |
Crossed Skis is a 1952 detective novel by Carol Carnac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.[1] It features the character of Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard, who appeared in fourteen novels by Carnac who under the name E.C.R. Lorac also wrote the better-known series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald.[2] Originally published by Collins Crime Club, it was reissued in 2020 by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
The investigation of a dead body in London's Bloomsbury takes Rivers to the Austrian Alps to hunt down the murderer amidst the visitors to a ski resort.