E. X Ferrars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
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
Series
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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 colleagues from dumping problems in his lap. This time around it's peppery Constance Camm, whose neighbors keep disappearing. Miss Camm and her sister, Mollie, would probably shrug it off if not for a frightening...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A retired professor finds that an amateur sleuth's work is never done, even on an Australian holiday in this cozy mystery,
Andrew Basnett takes a break from his little English village to spend Christmas in the small Australia city of Adelaide. Visiting Tony, an old colleague with a newish wife, Basnett soon learns that a cloud hangs over the marriage. Jan, Tony's bride, is widely believed to have murdered her first husband-a fact that is giving Tony...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 and finally digging into the biography he plans to write about an obscure seventeenth century botanist. While his flat in town is renovated, he settles into a little village in Oxfordshire where he's borrowed...