 Pseudonym of Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown. She was born in Rangoon, Burma and moved to England at the age of three. In 1953, she became one of the founding members of the Crime Writers' Association. In the USA her novels were published under the name 'E.X. Ferrars'. She is the creator of:
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Titles and year of publication:
| 'Andrew Basnett' Novels | |
| 1) Something Wicked | 1983 |
| 2) Root of All Evil | 1984 |
| 3) The Crime and the Crystal | 1985 |
| 4) The Other Devil's Name | 1986 |
| 5) A Murder Too Many | 1988 |
| 6) Smoke Without Fire | 1990 |
| 7) A Hobby of Murder | 1994 |
| 8) A Choice of Evils | 1995 |
| 'Toby Dyke' Novels | |
| 1) Give a Corpse a Bad Name | 1940 |
| 2) Remove the Bodies (US Title: Rehearsals for Murder [1941]) | 1940 |
| 3) Death in Botanist's Bay (US Title: Murder of a Suicide [1941]) | 1941 |
| 4) Don't Monkey with Murder (US Title: The Shape of a Stain [1942]) | 1942 |
| 5) Your Neck in a Noose (US Title: Neck in a Noose [1943]) | 1942 |
| 'Virginia and Felix Freer' Novels | |
| 1) Last Will and Testament | 1978 |
| 2) Frog in the Throat | 1980 |
| 3) Thinner Than Water | 1981 |
| 4) Death of a Minor Character | 1983 |
| 5) I Met Murder | 1985 |
| 6) Woman Slaughter | 1989 |
| 7) Sleep of the Unjust | 1990 |
| 8) Beware of the Dog | 1992 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) I, Said the Fly | 1945 |
| 2) Murder Among Friends (US Title: Cheat the Hangman [1946]) | 1946 |
| 3) With Murder in Mind | 1948 |
| 4) The March Hare Murders | 1949 |
| 5) Milk of Human Kindness | 1950 |
| 6) Hunt the Tortoise | 1950 |
| 7) The Clock That Wouldn't Stop | 1952 |
| 8) Alibi for a Witch | 1952 |
| 9) Murder in Time | 1953 |
| 10) The Lying Voices | 1954 |
| 11) Enough to Kill a Horse | 1955 |
| 12) Always Say Die (US Title: We Haven't Seen Her Lately [1956]) | 1956 |
| 13) Murder Moves In (US Title: Kill or Cure [1956]) | 1956 |
| 14) Furnished for Murder | 1957 |
| 15) Unreasonable Doubt (US Title: Count the Cost [1957]) | 1958 |
| 16) A Tale of Two Murders (US Title: Depart This Life [1958]) | 1959 |
| 17) Fear the Light | 1960 |
| 18) The Sleeping Dogs | 1960 |
| 19) The Wandering Widows | 1962 |
| 20) The Busy Body (US Title: Seeing Double [1962]) | 1962 |
| 21) The Doubly Dead | 1963 |
| 22) A Legal Fiction (US Title: The Decayed Gentlewoman [1963]) | 1964 |
| 23) Ninth Life | 1965 |
| 24) No Peace for the Wicked | 1966 |
| 25) Zero at the Bone | 1967 |
| 26) The Swaying Pillars | 1968 |
| 27) Skeleton Staff | 1969 |
| 28) The Seven Sleepers | 1970 |
| 29) A Stranger and Afraid | 1971 |
| 30) Breath of Suspicion | 1972 |
| 31) Foot in the Grave | 1973 |
| 32) The Small World of Murder | 1973 |
| 33) Hanged Man's House | 1974 |
| 34) Alive and Dead | 1974 |
| 35) Drowned Rat | 1975 |
| 36) The Cup and the Lip | 1975 |
| 37) Blood Flies Upwards | 1976 |
| 38) The Pretty Pink Shroud | 1977 |
| 39) Murder Anonymous | 1977 |
| 40) In at the Kill | 1978 |
| 41) Witness Before the Fact | 1979 |
| 42) Designs on Life (short stories) | 1980 |
| 43) Experiment with Death | 1981 |
| 44) Skeleton in Search of a Cupboard (US Title: Skeleton in Search of a Closet [1982]) | 1982 |
| 45) Come and Be Killed | 1987 |
| 46) Trial by Fury | 1989 |
| 47) Sequence of Events and other stories (short stories) | 1990 |
| 48) Danger from the Dead | 1992 |
| 49) Answer Came There None | 1992 |
| 50) Thy Brother Death | 1993 |
| 51) Seeing Is Believing | 1994 |
| 52) A Thief in the Night | 1995 |