I love Josephine Tey, and this is one of her best books! An interesting mystery and the characters, as always, stand out so sharply. (Feb 2008)-----One of Tey’s Inspector Grant books. As with most of them, this is almost as much about Grant as it is about the mystery. Includes Pat, who is always del...
Part of the Inspector Grant series, but it stands alone. Grant investigates the disappearance of a very charming, very troubling man from a quiet English town. Much like Barbara Pym (a contemporary), Tey has a deft but light touch at revealing the inner workings of social circles. There are lots ...
"It was a quiet morning on Downing Street. The Prime Minister was stewing over a draft bill to privatize the armed forces, many of the aides and secretaries who normally cluttered the place were already off for the weekend, and in the kitchens the cook was preparing a light lunch of staggering ordi...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. An actress is found drowned on a beach, and a young man who has been living (platonically) with her, returns from a foolhardy attempt to steal her car just as the body is discovered by police. This Tisdall (as he is called) is our friend Grant's prime suspect for t...
[These notes were made in 1984; I read a Pan, 1969 edition:]. Inspector Grant meets a very beautiful young man, Leslie Searle, at a fashionable party. Searle is a photographer, and gets himself invited to the home of a novelist in a small town which has become something of an artists' colony. Liz,...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. A young man (Simon) kills his elder twin brother Patrick at age 13, and dumps him down a quarry; then leaves Patrick's coat on a seaside cliff with a note which suggests suicide. Eight years later, just as Simon is about to come of age and inherit, Brat Farrar (a co...
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