Gina Macdonald was the author of eight books and several other book-length publications. She wrote hundreds of articles and encyclopedia pieces on a variety of literary topics, but mainly on detective/ crime fiction. At the time of her death she had been promoted to full professor at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Elizabeth Sanders obtained her B.A. in English from Nicholls State University in 2008. She was a teaching assistant at the University of Arkansas and will soon pursue a master’s degree in library science at Louisiana State University. Series Editor Elizabeth Foxwell, an Agatha Award winner, serves as managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection and is an editor at McFarland.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      viiiPreface      Organization of the Companion      Ferrars’s Works in Chronological Order      Ferrars’s Works in Alphabetical Order      A Brief Biography      A Career Chronology      The Companion      Bibliography      Index

Reviews of the Series: “The McFarland Companion series...has been consistently excellent, both in its choice of subjects and its quality of scholarship and writing”—Mystery Scene; “E.X. Ferrars: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction is a very full and fair, much needed survey of the more than one hundred fine pieces of crime fiction produced in a writing career that ran from 1932 to 1995. A well thought-out account of all you would want to know about this finely entertaining crime novelist.”—Diamond Dagger recipient H.R.F. Keating, creator of Inspector Ghote.