The Other Devil's Name (Andrew Basnett) - Softcover

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471906868 ISBN 13: 9781471906862

Publisher: The Murder Room, 2013

Synopsis

Andrew Basnett, retired botany professor, accompanies an old friend, whose sister has received a blackmail letter, to her home in a Berkshire village. The letter had obviously been put in the wrong envelope, but it seems to indicate that a murder has been committed in Lindleham, where, strangely, several people are missing.

But as Andrew quietly investigates the neighbours, the realisation dawns that his friends, too, have something to hide.

About this title

About the Author

One of the most distinguished crime writers of her generation, Elizabeth Ferrars (1907-1995) 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Murder Room
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1471906868
• ISBN 13: 9781471906862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186