Alive and Dead (Superintendent Ditteridge) - Softcover

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471906744 ISBN 13: 9781471906749

Publisher: The Murder Room

Synopsis

Martha Gragle, a volunteer at the National Guild for Unmarried Mothers, takes in a young, married woman seeking aid and enters an unfamiliar world of deceit and peril

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About the Author:

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 Writers Association, who, in the early 1980s, gave her a lifetime achievement award.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Murder Room
• ISBN 10: 1471906744
• ISBN 13: 9781471906749
• Binding: Paperback