I've been really busy, so this slender book took me a much longer time to read than I expected. And not because it wasn't good, because it was good. Quite good. This is my fourth Tey - I've already read Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair & The Singing Sands. What a sadness it is that she died so yo...
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...
Josephine Tey is one of my favorite authors, and though this novel isn't as well-known as her Daughter of Time or Brat Farrar I still consider it a standout and one of my favorite mystery novels. Like Dorothy Sayer's mystery Gaudy Night, this novel is set at a women's college--but not the rarefied ...
Like most of Tey's work, this is not a mystery in the usual sense. The term "crime drama" might fit, except it has the wrong connotations. Basically she writes novels that involve crime, but they're mostly about people, and generally very interesting and/or lovable people. I've read this book so man...
This is not so much a murder mystery than a 'psychological' study of the inhabitants of a women's Phys. Ed. college in post war Britain by Miss Pym, a visiting author of a successful pop psychology book. Having said that, there is a crime committed but it comes very late in the book and the main co...
First published in 1946, this novel isn't a conventional murder mystery and doesn't feature Tey's detective Inspector Alan Grant. Rather, the Miss Pym of the title serves the function of detective, without actually being one - either amateur or professional - at all. Rather, she's a high school teac...
well what do you know, my copy was missing the last chapter and idiot me hadn't realized it at all. i don't know if it changes much of what i thought though. What she did, what she allowed still happen on the same conviction. perhaps she's more humbled at the end, but still...I don't like Miss Pym. ...
This is not my favorite Tey (that would be The Daughter of Time), or even my second-favorite (Brat Farrar). But it’s a compelling story. Slightly tragic, as most of Tey’s mysteries are, with a few unexpected twists. I did feel on this read-through that it ended very abruptly. [Mar. 2010]
Miss Pym, an "amateur" student of psychology, is invited down for a weekend at an old school friend's women's college. Scandals, cheating and at last, murder rip through the quiet little school, leaving Miss Pym and the reader shaken and depressed.
[These notes were made in 1984:]. Lucy Pym stays at a school of Phys. Ed. where the year end demonstration is about to take place. She makes particular friends with a good-looking blonde nicknamed "Beau," and Beau's closest friend, a quiet, repressed, dark creature called Innes. Shortly before the...
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