Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.

[3] 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.

In the picturesque North Devon village of Milham near Exmoor, the body of a local woman is found floating in the mill race.

Many consider the dead woman to be close to a saint, who worked for various local charities for almost no money.