E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $16.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41995-6
Murder turns a history teacher's vacation into a painful ordeal in Ferrars's ( Sleep of the Unjust ) engrossing whodunit. English public school teacher Gavin Cleaver agrees to spend a month in the country with his brother Nigel and his semi-invalided
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-42288-8
One of Britain's most dependable and prolific mystery writers dishes up a feast of suspects and red herrings in the latest of more than 60 published novels. Marred only minimally by the hesitancy with which the amateur detective, con man and chronic
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $17 (188p) ISBN 978-0-385-46856-5
The prolific British author of Beware of the Dog , Trial by Fury et al. introduces a sympathetic heroine in her latest cozy thriller. Sara Marriott, a recently divorced young freelance writer, agrees to ghostwrite the autobiography of elderly Gen....
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47092-6
Middle-class English society served under glass is the main course of this surprisingly uninspired offering from the prolific Ferrars ( Answer Came There None ) . Patrick and Henrietta Carey are visited by a well-mannered Scotswoman who is seeking...
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-385-47168-8
Andrew Basnett, over 70, is stooped and, like this British mystery, seems barely to creep along. Restless after completing a time-consuming biography, the retired professor heads for a two-week country vacation at the home of old friends Mollie and...
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-385-26514-0
It's two evenings before Christmas in the comfy Berkshire village home of Colin and Dorothea Cahill, the tea things have been washed, dinner's on the stove and the Cahills are sipping sherry with their customary houseguest for the holidays, widower...
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-24999-7
Author of more than 50 novels, Ferrars creates ordinary British characters and places them in outre circumstances. In this ambient, village mystery, Constance Lawley, a 60-year-old widow who likes ``doing for'' people in need of occasional help, is...
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E. X. Ferrars, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-385-26491-4
As recounted by narrator Virginia Freer, this sprightly first work in a new series by the respected British author brings a visit from her husband Felix, a rogue she loves but can't live with. Felix, characteristically, arrives at the start of...
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