![]() When her husband was offered a post at Cornell University in the USA, the couple moved there but remained only a year before returning to Britain. ![]() This novel featured her young detective Toby Dyke, who was to feature in four other of her novels. particularly in the USA) Ferrars, the Ferrars her mother's maiden name. It was in 1940 that her first crime novel 'Give a Corpse a Bad Name' was published under the pseudonymn that she had adopted, Elizabeth (sometimes Elizabeth X. She eventually divorced her first husband in October 1945 and married Dr, later Professor, Brown. In the early 1930s she married her first husband but she left him, moved to Belsize Park in London and lived with Dr Robert Brown, a lecturer in botany at Bedford College in 1942. ![]() Her first two novels, 'Turn Single' (1932) and 'Broken Music' (1934), came out under her own name, Morna McTaggart. ![]() She attended Bedales school and then took a diploma in journalism at London University. Born Morna Doris McTaggart in Rangoon, Burma of a Scottish father and an Irish-German mother, she grew up in England where she moved at age six. ![]()
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