Murder Among Friends - Hardcover

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708920233 ISBN 13: 9780708920237

Publisher: Ulverscroft, 1989

Synopsis

Elizabeth Ferrars (6 September 1907 - 30 March 1995), born Morna Doris MacTaggart, was a British crime writer. From 1957, when her husband was appointed Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh, until shortly after his retirement in 1977 they lived in Edinburgh. Citing the long, cold winters as a reason, they then moved south to the village of Blewbury in Oxfordshire, where they lived contentedly together until her sudden death in 1995. She professed no religious faith and was probably instrumental in turning her husband from distinct evangelism in the 1930s towards agnosticism. She was buried in Blewbury in a non-religious ceremony. Her final novel, A Thief in the Night, was published posthumously in 1995. She was survived by a nephew, Peter MacTaggart. In the United States, her novels were published under the name E.X. Ferrars, her US publishers assuring her that "the 'X' would 'do it'". Ferrars was in fact her mother's maiden name.[4] Though the majority of Ferrars's works are standalone novels, she wrote several series. Her first five novels all feature Toby Dyke, a freelance journalist, and his companion, George, who uses several surnames and is implied to be a former criminal. Late in her career, she began writing about a semi-estranged married couple, Virginia and Felix Freer, and a retired botanist, Andrew Basnett. Several of her short stories also feature an elderly detective called Jonas P. Jonas.[1] Her extraordinary output owes a great deal to considerable self-discipline and diligent method. Her plots were worked out in detail in hand-written notebooks before being filled out in typed manuscript; she said that they were worked backwards from the denouement. Like every writer, she based characters and situations on people she knew and things she had seen in real life. She traveled with her husband when his academic career required, for example to Adelaide where he was a visiting professor at the University of South Australia.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Ferrars is a highly-acclaimed crime novelist with over seventy novels to her credit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0708920233
• ISBN 13: 9780708920237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384