Alive and Dead (Coronet Books) - Softcover

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340530294 ISBN 13: 9780340530290

Publisher: Coronet Books, 1990

Synopsis

While working for an association for unmarried mothers, Martha Crayle comes across Amanda, who has a problem - everyone says her husband has been dead for three years, but Amanda insists he is alive. The author's other books include "Murder Among Friends" and "Foot in the Grave".

About this title

Book Description:

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

About the Author:

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 Writers Association, who, in the early 1980s, gave her a lifetime achievement award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Coronet Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0340530294
• ISBN 13: 9780340530290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192