E. X Ferrars
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In Raneswood, England, retired teacher's wife Frances Chance seeks the killer of an actor in the local dramatic society's production of Romeo and Juliet. She discovers there are many secrets in her village--infidelity, blackmail, unrequited love, even sexual perversion--and many reasons to kill. By the author of A Hobby of Murder, who died earlier this year.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andrew Basnett does not have very good luck with Christmas. Most recently, visiting friends in Australia for the festive season, he wound up with a front-row seat to some rather extraordinary family strife. And this time around, his plans for a peaceful, English-village holiday get blown up when….well, when his hosts' neighbor, Sir Lucas Dearden, gets blown up. A bomb, you know. This is England, it's the 1980s: everyone shudders, blames the IRA,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The irresistible Andrew Basnett series may have been written in the 1980s and '90s, but its soul lies with the classic crime fiction of the 1930s. Here, for example, is A Hobby of Murder, with its setting at-wait for it-a classic country-house party, that staple of the Golden Age. Rounding out the guest list are, among others, a mystery writer, a lawyer with a reason to dislike him, a doctor, a retired teacher with a passion for photography, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Retired botany professor Andrew Basnett thought he would spend a quiet Christmas in Australia with his ex-student Tony Gardiner and Tony's wife Jan, but when Jan's sister if found bludgeoned to death with a hugh lump of crystal--the same way Jan's first husband has been killed--and Jan is missing, Basnett finds himself involved in a murder investigation.
12) Root of all evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A weekend holiday at a wealthy relative's country manor is a recipe that calls for mayhem in this charming cozy English mystery.
Andrew Basnett's cousin Felicity is old, rich, and the owner of a swanky Berkshire estate. If Basnett were a savvy mystery reader rather than a retired professor of botany, he would know that an invitation to spend Easter weekend at such an estate is all but guaranteed to involve at least one murder. But since Felicity...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Ah, it's an academic conference, with all the egos, the scandals, the terrifyingly petty squabbles on display. Well….perhaps not so petty. Professor Andrew Basnett has returned to his old university for a meeting of the Botanical Association, an event that should be entirely benign, except that he can't help being just a little curious about Carl Judd, an artist who was murdered here just two years ago. And, of course, about Stephen Sharland, who's...
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Virginia Freer has had it with her sort-of-ex-husband's taste for drama. Yes, Marcus Avery was a dear old duffer who lived in Virginia's town. Yes, Lillian Pace, Felix Freer's neighbor in London, was a sweet old bird. Yes, it's terrible they were murdered, but we live in a naughty world. But look at the coincidences!-Felix insists. That unpleasant silversmith. That awful couple seeking revenge. These were not two separate murders, I tell you: There...
Author
Series
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
The murder of a local author has an amateur sleuth and her con artist ex-husband on the case in this mystery by the author of Last Will and Testament.
Virginia's trouble is that whenever something awful happens, it is far too easy to imagine that her ex-husband, Felix-that lying, light-fingered charmer-is behind it somehow. So her suspicions are understandably raised when he unexpectedly shows up on her weekend getaway with the Boscotts, just as...
19) I met murder
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English