‘Yes,’ she said; ‘that’s all very well, but look at the long night there’ll be. You never know the minute you’ll waken up hungry and be glad of the sandwiches even if it’s only to pass the time. They’re chicken, and you don’t know when you’ll have chicken again. It’s a terribly poor country, Scotlan...
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...
I've nothing really to say about this except to describe the entire plot which I do not feel like doing and which I will probably forget in about a week anyway. A man is murdered in a queue, but no one knows who he is which makes it hard to determine why he was murdered. Red herrings abound and the ...
bookshelves: summer-2010, mystery-thriller, fraudio, published-1929 Read on June 04, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Unabridged and read by Steven Thorne. 2.5* Certain nouns that were the vogue back then, grate on our modern ears - 'dago' being the most persistent offender. Of course, anyone who reads t...
Josephine Tey is one of my favorite authors, easily the equal of Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie. Sadly, she wrote only eight mystery novels. I find half of those eight (Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair, Brat Farrar and The Daughter of Time) absolutely brilliant and another (To Love and Be...
There are some interesting subtexts in this story of love, obsession and murder. A man in a queue for the final performance of a particular actress in this run of her play before she goes to the US falls over dead and no-one remembers him being murdered. Inspector Alan Grant has to uncover the clu...
I loved these books in the early 1990s and bought every book by this author, listing her as one of my favorites. But second time is not a charm with this book. I just could not get into it. I felt Ms. Tey was a dark Agatha Christie, but her books (well at least this one) isn't that dark. It was ...
Tey is a beautifully compelling writer, and I re-read her fairly often. This, the first of her Inspector Grant books, is not one of my favourites, however. Grant is an urbane, handsome, charming, generous, polite and well-dressed paragon of policing and there's just a little too much over-emphasis...
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