by Josephine Tey
bookshelves: published-1948, mystery-thriller, winter-20102011, britain-england, fraudio Read from January 17 to 22, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** A good old fashioned mystery to clean the palate with.The Franchise Affair* (1948). [7 hrs 23 mins] blurb - Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely d...
The introduction to the newest editions of the Josephine Tey books by Robert Barnard singles out The Franchise Affair, along with Brat Farrar and The Daughter of Time as books that are more mainstream novels than mere mysteries, and I routinely see those three titles cited as the best books Tey ever...
While it is an interesting mystery, it mostly concerns the lawyer Robert Blair and his growth as a person and his asking of questions about the rut he's in. The mystery at the centre, and the catalyst for change, is a accusation of beating and kidnapping on the part of two reclusive women, one of w...
A very nice surprise. Not your typical English mystery made famous by Sayers, Marsh or Christie. Josephine Tey focuses on the characters and their quirks, the plot takes the back seat. Not that the plot is boring, it's not. It's just very linear and doesn't offer any surprises. The reader in not kep...
Inspector Grant played so little part in it he could go fishing between the chapters.
Robert Blair is a staid lawyer settling into a comfortable middle age when he gets dragged into an odd kidnapping case. It's told well--I really like Tey's quiet, understated writing style. And the characters and their interactions are delightfully old-fashioned. But old-fashioned is precisely my...
A good old fashioned mystery to clean the palate with.The Franchise Affair* (1948). [7 hrs 23 mins] blurb - Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franc...
Whilst better than the first two Alan Grant books (though, barely featuring Grant as a character at all), and containing within it a quite entertaining tale and convincing characters, does suffer again from the Author's enthusiasm for the Deus Ex Machina, whereby the answer proceeds not from the har...
While it is an interesting mystery, it mostly concerns the lawyer Robert Blair and his growth as a person and his asking of questions about the rut he's in.The mystery at the centre, and the catalyst for change, is a accusation of beating and kidnapping on the part of two reclusive women, one of who...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. If one can deduce a pattern from two books (a dangerous thing to do), Tey is set on proving just how nasty young women can be. In this case, Betty Kane, a schoolgirl, claims to have been kidnapped and beaten up by a spinster (Marion Sharpe) and her mother, who is a...
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