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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1940
  • Latest Book:
    September 2012
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Full Series List in Order

An Andrew Basnett Mystery

1 - Something Wicked (Mar-1984)
2 - Root of All Evil (Apr-2003)
3 - The Crime and the Crystal (Aug-1985)
4 - The Other Devil's Name (Mar-2001)
5 - A Murder Too Many (May-1989)
6 - Smoke Without Fire (Nov-2005)
7 - A Hobby of Murder (Jul-1995)
8 - A Choice of Evils (Jan-1997)

Toby Dyke

1 - Give a Corpse a Bad Name (1940)
2 - Remove the Bodies (1940)
3 - Murder of a Suicide (Apr-2007)
4 - The Shape of a Stain (Jan-2001)
5 - Neck in a Noose (1942)

Virginia and Felix Freer

1 - Last Will and Testament (1978)
2 - In At the Kill (1979)
3 - Frog in the Throat (Sep-1997)
4 - Thinner Than Water (Jan-1982)
5 - Death of a Minor Character (Jun-1983)
6 - I Met Murder (Jan-1974)
7 - Woman Slaughter (May-1990)
8 - Sleep of the Unjust (Jul-1991)
9 - Beware of the Dog (Dec-1992)

Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • Give a Corpse a Bad Name

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Toby Dyke - 1

    On a cold winter's night, a man is run over while lying drunk in the middle of a Devon lane. Driving the car is local resident Anna Milne, an attractive widow from South Africa. It could be an unfortunate accident, but strange coincidence hints at mo...

  • Remove the Bodies

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Toby Dyke - 2

  • Neck in a Noose

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Toby Dyke - 5

  • I, Said the Fly

    One day in the spring of 1941, Kay Bryant walked along a bombed London street in which she had rented a room before the war. She had come to see what the blitz had done to Little Carberry Street, and now that No. 10 had vanished completely, there was...

  • The March Hare Murders

    A murder shocks the sleepy English village of Wellford. Professor Verinder is dead, and the only witness is left injured without catching sight of the killer. The obvious suspect is David Obeney, an unstable man who has only recently arrived in the v...

  • The Clock That Wouldn't Stop

    Alex Summerhill was the confidante of thousands of readers of the daily newspaper to which she contributed a weekly advice column. Her warm-hearted counsel went out all over England, to distracted lovers, women with faithless husbands, men with faith...

  • Enough to Kill a Horse

    Fanny Lynam's cocktail party is awkward to arrange. Her old friend Clare is not eager to come, the ill-tempered Tom is sure to quarrel with whomever he can, and Fanny is nervous about meeting the young widow, Laura Greenslade, who has just become eng...

  • Murder Moves In // Kill or Cure

    Moving house is always an exasperating and stressful event. But Robina Mellanby, in her cheerful, slap-dash way, was perfectly able to cope with the ordinary exigencies of the move. Her real anxieties were more deep-rooted. To move so close to the ho...

  • Unreasonable Doubt

    Professor Alistair Dirke thought himself a reasonable man - he could scarcely acknowledge the suspicion that was beginning to grow in his mind every time he saw his wife Rose with Paul Eckleston ...Paul seemed to be there very often these days. Yet s...



  • Seeing Double

  • The Wandering Widows

    Robin Nicholl had intended to do some sober thinking about his life whilst wandering the moorlands of Mull in the Hebrides. But, as he travels north, his curiosity is roused by four cheerful middle-aged women who describe themselves as widows. He see...

  • A Legal Fiction

  • No Peace for the Wicked

  • Zero at the Bone

    Pretty young Susan Lyne did not want to listen the the whisperings in the villages about the peculiar at Bright's Farm. Fir the couple who owned the Farm - Rob and Nina Riscoe trust with her very life. True, the Riscoes were eccentric, with the wild...

  • The Swaying Pillars

    SHADOWS OF DANGER Helena Sebright viewed it as a sunlit holiday - a visit to Africa as temporary governess to a small girl. But from the moment of arrival, the shadows of danger deepened. Outside in the jungle, native unrest threatened every s...

  • The Seven Sleepers

    The family of the late Professor Garvie-Brown, particularly his eighth wife, discover that he murdered his previous seven wives, four of whom he had married bigamously. They fear that if the truth were known they would be ruined, and so discover to h...

  • A Breath of Suspicion

    It is at a party that Richard Hendon first hears about the mysterious Paul Clyro and his unexplained disappearance. Clyro had been a scientist, doing secret work on viruses with a colleague named Wolsingham. But Wolsingham had committed suicide by sw...

  • Foot in the Grave

  • I Met Murder

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 6

    Whenever Felix, the light-fingered husband from whom Virginia Freer was semi-detached, reappeared in her life, it seemed murder did too. Even when temporarily incapacitated by an accident. Felix brought mystery with him. This time it concerned Holly,...



  • Hanged Man's House

    Dr. Charles Gair was found hanged, but that is not what killed him. This was the first of the bizarre surprises awaiting those who penetrated the home of the head of the Martindale research establishment on a Sunday morning to see what was amiss. Eve...

  • The Small World of Murder

  • The Pretty Pink Shroud

    Lady Guest always donates her old clothes to her favorite thrift shop, but the staff at the store is more than a little disturbed when one of her dresses arrives at the shop covered with blood and pierced by a bullet....

  • Last Will and Testament

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    Virginia and Felix Freer - 1

    A wealthy woman’s last will and testament draws together friends, family, a master felon, and a charming conman in this delightful mystery series debut.Mrs. Arliss was witty. Mrs. Arliss was delightful. But mostly, Mrs. Arliss was rich. And now, Mr...

  • In At the Kill

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Virginia and Felix Freer - 2

    After arriving at a rented cottage in the countryside for a holiday, a young woman discovers that the landlord has been murdered and that she has the strongest motive for committing the crime and soon realizes that her own life may be in danger...

  • Designs on Life

    Elizabeth Ferrars wrote more than thirty short stories, many of which appeared in anthologies and newspapers by the time Designs on Life was first published in 1980. Already well known for her crime novels, this collection illustrates the author's sk...

  • The Cup and the Lip

  • Experiment With Death

    After killing Guy Lampard, director of a large research institute in England, the murderer changed all of the clocks at the institute, leaving the police unable to determine where the suspects were at the time of the crime...

  • Thinner Than Water

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 4

    Virginia Freer and her husband, Felix, separated though they may be, are together again after appearances in Frog in the Throat and In at the Kill. Here, they attend an old friend's wedding and-as usual-find murder waiting for them....

  • Skeleton in Search of a Closet



  • Death of a Minor Character

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 5

    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’...

  • Something Wicked

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 1

    A retired botanist comes to stay in a charming English village, where murder and blackmail disturb the bucolic peace in this mystery series debut. No longer on the sprightly side of seventy, Professor Andrew Basnett is looking forward to retirement a...

  • The Crime and the Crystal

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 3

    A retired professor finds that an amateur sleuth’s work is never done, even on an Australian holiday in this cozy mystery with “a dandy plot” (Publishers Weekly). Andrew Basnett takes a break from his little English village to spend Christmas i...

  • Depart This Life // A Tale of Two Murders

  • Alibi for a Witch

  • Come to Be Killed

  • A Murder Too Many

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 5

    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 Associat...

  • Hunt the Tortoise

    Lovely Celia Kent had looked forward to a quiet vacation at Madame Oliver's hotel on the French Riviera and was disappointed to find Madame no longer in charge and the hotel itself inhabited by a group of very strange guests. Most disturbing was a st...

  • Trial by Fury

  • Milk of Human Kindness

    Mystery Large Print Edition There is a certain insistence about the ring of a doorbell that few can resist. So it was that September Sunday morning with Marabelle. It was her sister, the immaculate and self-centered Susan, who had come to command a...



  • Woman Slaughter

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 7

    The charmingly mischievous Felix Freer again teams up with his strong-willed ex-wife Virginia to unravel a mystery surrounding the death of an old man killed by a hit-and-run driver in front of Virginia's house...

  • Skeleton Staff

    WEB OF TERROR When Camilla Carey came to the island of Madeira to look after her half-sister Roberta, she knew she had made a mistake. Roberta had changed, not only physically and emotionally, but in strange disturbing ways Camilla could not under...

  • Sleep of the Unjust

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 8

  • Danger from the Dead

    Vacationing at the guest cottage on the property of his brother, Gavin, Nigel Cleaver discovers the bodies of Gavin's wife, Annabel, and her half-sister, Caroline. By the author of Sleep of the Unjust....

  • The Doubley Dead

  • Beware of the Dog

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 9

  • Answer Came There None

    In the small town of Edgeworth to ghostwrite the memoirs of a well-known general, journalist Sara Marriott receives a troubling message on her answering machine and, soon after, her landlady turns up dead...

  • Thy Brother Death

    The placid life of a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry becomes agitated for Patrick Carey when an unknown woman claiming to be his deserted wife suddenly appears, only to abruptly die in a mysterious fire....

  • Fear the Light

    Home of Horror Peggy Robertson thought she had left the small town where she was raised far behind her. Peggy had won honors at college, settled in the city, and now, despite her good looks and comparative youth, already had launched a brillian...

  • Blood Flies Upward



  • A Hobby of Murder

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 7

    Retired professor Andrew Basnett had been at loose ends since finishing the book that was for so long his full-time occupation. A country visit with his old friends Mollie and Ian Davidge seemed like just the diversion he needed. And, indeed, the vis...

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Infidelity, blackmail, unrequited love, and sexual perversion are the dirty little secrets that come to light in the staid English village of Raneswood when an amateur actor is found murdered in his home....

  • A Stranger and Afraid

    Home to Horror Holly Dunthorne came home to the little English village where she had spent the only happy years of her troubled childhood. She looked forward to seeing again the dear people who helped her when she needed it the most. But those ...

  • A Choice of Evils

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 8

    Expecting nothing more than a quiet holiday in the sleepy seaside town of Gallmouth, England, Andrew Basnett is first surprised to meet his nephew, Peter Dilly, quite by chance, and then both pleased and annoyed to find himself drawn into the activit...

  • A Thief in the Night

    MysteryLarge Print EditionAlec and Veronica Guest live a quiet life in the picturesque village of Maddingleigh, with little to disturb their daily routine. Then an antique dealer friend has a valuable old clock stolen. Not that serious an incident, t...

  • Frog in the Throat

    Virginia and Felix Freer - 3

    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 he...

  • Alive and Dead

  • Murders Anonymous

  • The Lying Voices

  • The Shape of a Stain

    Toby Dyke - 4

  • The Other Devil's Name

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 4

    When an old colleague complains of disappearing neighbors, a retired professor of botany starts digging for clues in this delightful cozy mystery.Andrew Basnett may be retired from academia, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped his former colleagu...

  • Witness Before the Fact

    "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." It was the fact that Alec Methven had apparently done so that first makes the police suspicious on the island of Madeira. Despite all indications to the contrary, he had not eaten his last meal in sol...

  • Always Say Die // We Haven't Seen Her Lately

  • Root of All Evil

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 2

    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 mys...

  • The Sleeping Dogs

  • Cheat the Hangman

  • Drowned Rat

  • Smoke Without Fire

    An Andrew Basnett Mystery - 6

    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 peace...

  • Murder of a Suicide

    Toby Dyke - 3

    When Toby and his round-faced companion, George get caught in torential rain one night, they are surprised to find that they are not the only ones out in such a fierce storm. It seems that Edgar Prees, an aging botanist of prestige and reputation, is...

  • Rehearsals for Murder

    Toby Dyke, saturnine journalist, gets a mysterious call to investigate the death of Lou Capell (who had spent the previous night at his flat). While Toby and his companion, George, try and work out who is setting the fantastic murder traps that keep ...

  • The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries

    E. X. Ferrars (1907-1995) was born Morna Doris MacTaggart and known as Elizabeth Ferrars in Great Britain. By whatever name, she was an elegant crime writer, specializing in the traditional, classic mystery. She remains,wrote one reviewer, one of the...

  • The Busy Body

    • / General Fiction
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  • Come and Be Killed

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Having inherited money, Rachel Gardner had come to Australia to visit her brother, but not only was he not at the airport, he was not at his lodgings either and his Greek landlord was evasive about his whereabouts. Accepting that her best course was ...

  • Death in Botanists Bay

    • / General Fiction
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  • Furnished for Murder

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Murder Among Friends

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Ninth Life

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars has published 76 books.

E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries, was published in September 2012.

The first book by E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars, Give a Corpse a Bad Name, was published in January 1940.

Yes. E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars has 3 series.
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