Witness Before the Fact
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2014
Summary
One of the best-loved and most prolific crime writers of her generation - ‘the writer who may be the closest of all to Christie in style’ Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Suicide or murder? Despite all indications to the contrary, Alec Methven had not eaten his last meal in solitude, and somebody was very anxious to conceal that fact. As if one death on the beautiful island of Madeira was not enough, there was another. Peter Corey, who had found Me…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471906688 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147190668X |
| Author: | Elizabeth Ferrars |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room |
| Imprint: | The Murder Room |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Murder Room |
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Critics Review
One of the very last authors of detective fiction from the genre’s “Golden Age”
One of the very last authors of detective fiction from the genre’s “Golden Age” * INDEPENDENT *
A consummate professional in clever plotting, characterisation and atmosphere * WASHINGTON POST *
The writer who may be the closest of all to Christie in style, plotting and general milieu * ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE *
Elizabeth Ferrars
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 Writer’s Association, who, in the early 1980s, gave her a lifetime achievement award.
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