Elizabeth Ferrars Bücher

Psychobiologist Dr Paul Virag has been dragged from his experimental station in Tobago at the whim of an heiress who requested that he chaperon her two prize monkeys across the Atlantic. But what has been an incovenience to his calm life takes an unexpected turn into a sinister mystery.

Ex library, usual stamps and marks, page edges tanned and marked, worn dust jacket is in a protective sleeve.

A Hollywood actor, in England for a wedding, committed suicide, leaving 2 conflicting suicide notes. It took wedding guest Freer to work out that a cold-blooded murderer was at large.

The Decayed Gentlewoman they had called her as children - an unregarded painting badly in need of cleaning. Later it vanished. But before that Ginny and her mother had stopped coming to stay in Ardachoil. Colin never knew why. Now suddenly both the Decayed Gentlewoman and Ginny had re-entered his life. After an urgent station annoucement at King's Cross and an oddly frantic phone call, Dr Colin Locke, childhood emotions vividly re-awakened, found himself drawn into a maze of suspicions, theft, legal complexities and finally murder.

Mysterious events began when Christine Findon went upstairs after breakfast and met a strange man coming downstairs. Shoes disappear and as the story unfolds Christine suspects one of the occupants of her house harbours a sinister fetish for footware ... but she doesn't suspect one of them is about to commit murder.

When Toby Dyke and his companion, George, get caught in torrential rain one night, they are surprised to find that they are not the only ones out in such a fierce storm: Edgar Prees, aging botanist of prestige and reputation, is attempting to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff top. The two men drive Edgar home, collapsed and shaken. When he is then found the following morning shot dead with his own revolver, it seems that his attempt at suicide has succeeded - but is the case really as clear-cut as it appears?

Kriminalroman.

John Lestarke-Toye was sitting upright in his chair with his hands clasped on his little paunch, smiling, bland and genial as always. He was also quite, quite dead. On the purple carpet, surrounded by broken and disturbed furniture, was a great splash of blood. There was no medical explanation to suggest that John had died of other than natural causes. And no amount of reasoning could explain the condition of the room in which he was found. So Toby Dyke and his friend, George, set out to solve the mystery of a corpse without a murder and a murder without a corpse...

Stephen Gazeley was a perfectly nice and charming man - on the surface. But those slightly closer to him, such as his sister Hilda, knew a darker side; a side that made him bad-tempered and aggressive. But what had he done that was bad enough to lead him to being bludgeoned to death in his study?

The lying voices were clocks that filled the room where Arnold Thaine was shot dead. They ticked in a hundred different rhythms but every single one was wrong. So the fact that a bullet stopped one of them gave no clue for the time of the murder. Who was the mysterious woman who had entered Thaine's study? Who were the other two visitors, and was anything to be learned from the broken clock?

This book is part of a series with the main character being Andrew Basnett, a retired professor of botany. Once again he accepts an invitation to stay with an aged cousin named Felicity in her Berkshire home over Easter. He discovers the reappearance of a former house keeper in Fecility's vicinity that creates a mystery which intrigues him, even though it is dismissed by her relatives when they arrive fr a family party. In any case, events at the party soon give them other things to think about, as they do Basnett, who now finds himself investigating a murder with all too many suspects and one motive: MONEY.

Detektivní román známé autorky detektivních příběhů zavádí do poválečné Anglie. Mladá manželka pozná brzy po svatbě bratra svého manžela, jenž je mu k nerozeznání podoben, a objevuje v životě obou mužů mnoho podezřelého. Když je však bratr zavražděn, s postupem vyšetřování odhaluje minulost svého muže a podrobuje svůj citový vztah zatěžkávací zkoušce.