Murders Anonymous

by E.X. Ferrars

Professor Matthew Tierney had a perfect alibi for the time of his young wife's he was lunching in a pub with his brother-in-law. It was when he received an anonymous telephone call suggesting that the alibi had been bought and paid for that his troubles really began. For Matthew had a motive for he believed his wife was having an affair. Although the police were apparently satisfied that he could not help them with their enquiries, it seemed a good idea to take refuge with his sister and her husband in their cottage on the south coast. But it was while staying with them that his wife had met the man Matthew suspected of being her lover, and he still lived near by, one thread in a complex web of human relationships in which Matthew was rapidly enmeshed. Yet he never suspected the identity or motives of the web-spinner until one dark night on the cliffs ... Elizabeth Ferrars's acute psychological perception and intricate plotting once again combine in a crime novel of highest quality.

Genres: Mystery

161 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Aka Elizabeth Ferrars

Elizabeth Ferrars is a pseudonym of Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown. She was born in Rangoon, Burma.

Reviews

[Roberta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many red herrings again but this time I guessed the correct murderer. The hint of a romance at the end seemed superfluous but as another of her books I have calls itself a romance, I suppose it wasn't entirely out of place.

[Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this was great! I’m now on an E.X. Ferrars kick, and I loved this. Did not see this ending coming — and the whole story was so concise, yet with such rich characters. An excellent cozy.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Professor Matthew Tierney is unhappily married to a woman who has just inherited a fortune. Luckily for him, he has a perfect alibi covering the time when she was murdered. Not that the police are ready to write him off yet. Matthew goes to stay in the remote coastal cottage of his older sister and brother-in-law, his best friend since schooldays, where he begins to suspect that their neighbor is involved in his wife's death. When the neighbor dies, Matthew doesn't have an alibi...

[Kacper Nedza · Rating 4 out of 5]

A certain elegiac mood pervades this one; the beautifully evoked windy, un-tourist-y seaside setting is as melancholy as the characters themselves.