Selected E. X. Ferrars Mysteries

Note: Many of these books are out of print. Amazon.com will search for them for you.

I enjoy the E. X. Ferrars books as good, fun, light reading which nonetheless has some challenges as the plot develops and the evidence appears. Below are just a few of the books.

Skeleton in Search of a Closet. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1982.
ISBN: 0385182686.
181 pages
Hardcover

Thinner than Water. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1982.
ISBN: 0385179464.
180 pages
Hardcover
Mystery featuring Virginia Freer and her husband Felix, who are also in Frog in the Throat and In at the Kill

Something Wicked. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1984.
ISBN: 0385192541.
182 pages
Hardcover
A Professor Andrew Basnett mystery. Watch as the retired professor of Botany solves the mystery, almost without trying!

Come to be Killed. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1987.
ISBN: 0385241992.
181 pages
Hardcover
Set in Australia as a woman tries to visit her brother. He doesn't meet her at the airport. It turns out he's missing . . .

A Murder Too Many. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1988.
ISBN: 0385246110.
198 pages
Hardcover
Professor Basnett is at it again, this time attending (sort of) a botany conference, but instead solving an old murder--and a couple of new ones.