| The Dog It Was That Died | |
| Author: | E.C.R. Lorac |
| 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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| Preceded By: | Murder of a Martinet |
| Followed By: | Murder in the Mill-Race |
The Dog It Was That Died is a 1952 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.[1] [2] It is the thirty sixth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, one of the more conventional detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.[3] It was published by the Collins Crime Club.
When Rodney Bretton, a lecturer in mathematics, is knocked down and killed by a lorry is it assumed to be a tragic accident. However the drowning of his daughter Wendy in her bath a couple of months later leads MacDonald to launch an investigation.