Professor Blevin-Smith, emeritus of Oxford and now well into his dotage, has been tapped for a tour as visiting professor in the wilds of Australia. He finds the accommodations execrable, the food inedible, and the company deplorable. Professor Blevins--who's been giving the same lectures, word for ...
DI Alan Grant meets unsettlingly handsome photographer Leslie Searle at a party celebrating the release of Miss Lavinia Fitch's latest bestselling dumb damsel in distress novel. Literary sherry parties, we're told, are not Grant's cup of tea, but he's there to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinn...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, published-1936, fraudio, britain-england, spring-2010 Read from May 28 to 29, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** mp3 - Quite a (messy) over ambitious plot line that meant either complete adherence or suffer the consequences. Not worth more than the solid three but I will say...
Sadly Tey wrote only eight mysteries, and this is her last, published posthumously. I don't think it's among her best. I'd rate it perhaps sixth out of the eight, but it's still a great read, and stands out as a character study of her detective, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard. When he first ...
Josephine Tey, along with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, is my favorite mystery author. Sadly, she wasn't at all prolific. She only wrote eight mystery novels before her death in 1952. What I find remarkable about them is that each really is so memorable and so different, yet each offers more t...
I've recently been rereading the Josephine Tey mysteries. Sadly, there aren't many--only eight of them. One of the pleasures of reading To Love and Be Wise after almost all of the others was recognizing allusions to the prior novels, such as Jerry Lamont, a suspect in The Man in the Queue; Jammy Hop...
Josephine Tey is one of my favorite mystery authors--easily top five. This isn't a favorite book among her works though. Sadly, she only wrote eight. The introduction to the latest editions by Robert Barnard name The Daughter of Time, The Franchise Affair and Brat Farrar as the standouts; I'd add Mi...
A Stranger In The Family centers around a young man named Kit, who is beset with mysteries surrounding his part and present. He was abducted at age three, and placed into another family, but for reasons unknown.I enjoyed reading this story. Most of it is learned through the use of direct dialogue, t...
I read the book a long time ago and am now listening to the audiobook. After re-reading the first book, I thought I must have looked back on Ms. Tey's books with rose colored glasses. I had read them in the mid 1990s and hadn't re-read them since. I realized that's 20 years! This book showed me th...
I wish I hadn't left getting better acquainted with Josephine Tey's writing for quite so long. In this novel, Tey's second, Inspector Alan Grant investigates the murder of a famous actress, whose death by drowning had been predicted by a celebrity clairvoyant. In her characteristically elegant prose...
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