Female : Crime Novelist. Wrote over 40 psycholoogical thrillers. Married botanist professor Robert Brown in 1940

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Rangoon

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 1995 Age : 88

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Morna Doris McTaggart. X

Education : Bedales Sch & London University

1932-1945
Turn Single (1932 Nicholson) - Morna Doris McTaggart
Broken Music (1934 Dutton, US) - Morna Doris McTaggart
Give a Corpse a Bad Name (1940 Hodder & Stoughton)
Remove the Bodies (1940 Hodder & Stoughton) (1941 Doubleday NY as "Rehearsals for Murder")
Death at Botanist's Bay (1941 Hodder & Stoughton) (1941 Doubleday as "Murder of a Suicide")
Don't Monkey with Murder (1942 Hodder & Stoughton) (1942 Doubleday as "The Shape of a Stain")
Your Neck in a Noose (1942 Hodder & Stoughton) (1943 Doubleday as "Neck in a Noose")
I, Said the Fly (1945 Hodder & Stoughton) (1945 Doubleday)

1946-1950
Murder Among Friends (1946 Collins) (1946 Doubleday as "Cheat the Hangman")
With Murder in Mind (1948 Collins)
The March Hare Murders (1949 Collins) (1949 Doubleday)
Milk of Human Kindness (1950 Collins)
Hunt the Tortoise (1950 Collins) (1950 Doubleday)

1951-1960
The Clock that Wouldn't Stop (1952 Collins) (1952 Doubleday)
Alibi for a Witch (1952 Collins) (1952 Doubleday)
Murder in Time (1953 Collins)
The Lying Voices (1954 Collins)
Enough to Kill a Horse (1955 Collins) (1955 Doubleday)
Always Say die (1956 Collins) (1956 Doubleday as "We Haven't seen Her Lately")
Murder Moves In (1956) (1956 Doubleday as "Kill or Cure")
Finished for Murder (1957 Collins)
Unreasonable Doubt (1958 Collins) (1957 Doubleday as "Count the Cost")
A Tale of Two Murders (1959 Collins) (1958 Doubleday as "Depart This Life")
Fear the Light (1960 Collins) (1960 Doubleday)
Sleeping Dogs (1960 Collins) (1960 Doubleday)

1961-1970
The Wandering Widows (1962 Collins) (1962 Doubleday)
The Busy Body (1962 Collins) (1962 Doubleday as "Seeing Double")
The Doubly Dead (1963 Collins) (1963 Doubleday)
A Legal Fiction (1964 Collins) (1963 Doubleday as "The Decayed Gentlewoman")
Ninth Life (1965 Collins)
No Peace for the Wicked (1965 Collins) (1966 Doubleday)
Zero at the Bone (1967 Collins) (1968 Walker)
The Swaying Pillars (1968 Collins) (1969 Walker)
Skeleton Staff (1969 Collins) (1969 Walker)
The Seven Sleepers (1970 Collins) (1970 Walker)

1971-1975
A Stranger and Afraid (1971 Collins) (1971 Walker)
Breath of Suspicion (1972 Collins) (1972 Doubleday)
The Small World of Murder (1973 Collins) (1973 Doubleday)
Foot in the Grave (1973 Collins) (1972 Doubleday)
Hanged Man's House (1974 Collins) (1974 Doubleday)
Alive and Dead (1974 Collins) (1975 Doubleday)
Drowned Rat (1975 Collins) (1975 Doubleday)
The Cup and the Lip (1975 Collins) (1976 Doubleday)

1976-1980
Blood Flies Upwards (1976 Collins) (1977 Doubleday)
The Pretty Pink Shroud (1977 Collins) (1977 Doubleday)
Murders Anonymous (1977 Collins) (1978 Doubleday)
Last Will and Testament (1978 Collins) (1978 Doubleday)
In at the Kill (1978 Collins) (1979 Doubleday)
Witness Before the Fact (1979 Collins £2.95) (1980 Doubleday)
Frog in the Throat (1980 Collins) (1980 Doubleday)
Designs on Life (1980 Collins) (1980 Doubleday) - ss

1981-1989
Thinner Than Water (1981 Collins) (1982 Doubleday)
Experiment with Death (1981 Collins) (1981 Doubleday)
Skeleton in Search of a Cupboard (1972 Collins) (1982 Doubleday as "Skeleton in Search of a Closet")
Death of a Minor Character (1983 Collins) (1983 Doubleday)
Something Wicked (1983 Collins) (1984 Doubleday)
The Root of All Evil (1984 Collins) (1984 Doubleday)
(In) Crime on the Coast & No Flowers by Request (1984 Gollancz)
I Met Murder (1985 Collins) (1986 Doubleday)
The Crime and the Crystal (1985 Collins) (1985 Doubleday)
The Other Devil's Name (1986 Collins) (1987 Doubleday)
Come and Be Killed (1987 Collins) (1987 Doubleday)
A Murder Too Many (1988 Collins) (1989 Doubleday)
Woman Slaughter (1989 Collins) (1990 Doubleday)
Sequence of Events (1989 Eurographica) - ss. 350 copies
Trial by Fury (1989 Collins) (1989 Doubleday)

1990 Onwards
Smoke Without Fire (1990 Collins) (1991 Doubleday)
Sleep of the Unjust (1990 Collins) (1991 Doubleday)
Danger from the Dead (1991 Collins) (1992 Doubleday)
Answer Came There None (1992 Collins) (1993 Doubleday)
Beware of the Dog (1992 Collins) (1993 Bantam)
Thy Brother Death (1993 Collins) (1993 Doubleday)
A Hobby of Murder (1994 Collins) (1994 Doubleday)
Seeing is Believing (1994 Harper Collins) (1996 Doubleday)
A Choice of Evils (1995 Harper Collins) (1997 Doubleday)
A Thief in the Night (1995 Harper Collins)