This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to lit...

Andrew Basnett does not have very good luck with Christmas. Most recently, visiting friends in Au...

Ah, it's an academic conference, with all the egos, the scandals, the terrifyingly petty squabble...

'A Felony & Mayhem mystery'--Title page verso.

If Andrew Basnett were a savvy mystery reader rather than a retired professor of botany, he would...

'A Felony & Mayhem mystery'--Title page verso.

'Virginia Freer's elderly friend has died, the will seems to have prompted both theft and murder,...

'When a friend consults Professor Basnett about a blackmail plot, further investigation reveals a...

'Ex-odd-couple Virginia and Felix agree to be witnesses at a wedding that turns into an investiga...

Those plans for peaceful seaside holidays? They never really work out well, at least not in the w...

It's awful: dear old Malcolm Creed, one of Virginia Freer's favorite neighbors, has been killed i...

Murder and Felix have the habit of turning up--and turning up together--in Virginia Freer's life,...

One inheritance plus two heirs adds up to murder in a Golden Age-style mystery that critics say i...

One wedding, two bickering sleuths, and three suicide notes (all from the same person ), plus a s...