Katharine Dorothy Farrer nee Newton (1911-1972) was an English writer. She was born in Wiltshire and educated at St Anne's College Oxford. In 1937 she married Austin Farrer, a brilliant cleric. Prior to that she was a teacher of Latin and Greek. One of her books, The Missing Link, provides a view of University life in Oxford. Her series character was Inspector Richard Ringwood.

A detailed biography can be found at Rue Morgue Press, who have reissued all three of her books.

Bibliography

The Missing Link (1952)

The Cretan Counterfeit (1954)

Gownsman's Gallows (1957)