A Shilling For Candles
by:
Josephine Tey (author)
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide,...
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Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099556688 (0099556685)
Publish date: February 3rd 2011
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Alan Grant (#2)
A famous movie actress is found dead, washed up on the shore of Kent. The only thing to indicate it might not have just been an accidental drowning is that the police found a button from a dark overcoat tangled in her hair. But, virtually no one knew that the actress was at this isolated cottage, sa...
After reading Josephine Teys mysteries, I thought I'd post some of my thoughts about them.First the positives:They're free.They're well written in general.They're really good mysteries. The minor characters are mostly nice and interesting.To me, they're historic, though I know the author wrote and p...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, published-1936, fraudio, britain-england, spring-2010, winter-20142015, film-only Read from May 28, 2010 to January 11, 2015, read count: 2 Now for the filmDescription: A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screamin...
Another excellent example of "not your ordinary mystery novel". A body is discovered on a beach, and the immediate assumption of suicide is soon contradicted by the evidence. (I have to say I'm a little impressed that the article found with the body which indicates murder is never mentioned in anyth...
"If you look and act like a million dollars they’ll lick your boots. But you let them suspect that you don’t think much of yourself and they’re on you like ants on a dying wasp." I read "A Shilling for candles" because it is the book of the Month at the English Mysteries Club (Goodreads Group) an...
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