Root of All Evil

by E. X. Ferrars

Overview

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 is all about excess, this trip delivers not only a death threat, but also an imminent disinheritance, the theft of a fortune in diamonds, some spectacular intrigue involving the servants, and not one but two corpses. It’s a good thing the mild-mannered professor is around to suss out the family secrets!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631942327
Publisher:	Felony & Mayhem Press
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	Andrew Basnett , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	342,291
File size:	706 KB

About the Author

Morna Doris MacTaggart was born in Burma in 1907 and sent at the age of six to a prestigious boarding school in England. After an early marriage and the publication of two novels, in 1940 her life was turned upside-down when she both met Robert Brown and published Give a Corpse a Bad Name, her first mystery and the first in what would become the five-book “Toby Dyke” series. She and Brown married in 1945 and in 1951 moved to the US, though they returned to the UK only a year later, sickened by America's turn toward McCarthyism. In 1953 Ferrars helped found the Crime Writers' Association. The couple lived in Edinburgh for 25 years, during which Ferrars wrote more than 35 crime novels, finally returning to series mystery?first with the “Virginia and Alex Freer” books and then with “Andrew Basnett”?in the late 1970s, after a move to Oxfordshire. She died in 1995, having published more than 75 novels and numerous short stories, nearly all of them involving dead bodies.