A Thief in the Night (Collins crime) - Hardcover

Ferrars, Elizabeth

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9780002325295: A Thief in the Night (Collins crime)

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ISBN 10: 0002325292 ISBN 13: 9780002325295

Publisher: Collins Crime, 1995

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When a valuable old clock is stolen, it turns out to be the prelude to an increasingly sinister series of events which are to culminate in murder. The tranquillity of the community is shattered and the inhabitants of the village find themselves living a life of fear and suspicion.

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One of the best-loved and most prolific crime writers of her generation.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Ferrars 1907-1995

One of the most distinguished crime writers of her generation, Elizabeth Ferrars was born in Rangoon and came to Britain at the age of six. She was a pupil at Bedales school between 1918 and 1924, studied journalism at London University and published her first crime novel, Give a Corpse a Bad Name, in 1940, the year that she met her second husband, academic Robert Brown. Highly praised by critics, her brand of intelligent, gripping mysteries beloved by readers, she wrote over seventy novels and was also published (as E. X. Ferrars) in the States, where she was equally popular. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine described her as as 'the writer who may be the closest of all to Christie in style, plotting and general milieu', and the Washington Post called her 'a consummate professional in clever plotting, characterization and atmosphere'. She was a founding member of the Crime Writer's Association, who, in the early 1980s, gave her a lifetime achievement award.

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