by Josephine Tey
Edited to add a picture of Calder Alexander Eno the preternaturally enormous cat. He loves lying on books and devices; probably he can absorb books by osmosis. He is extremely affectionate and loves to lie on the sofa with me while I read. But not now, because it is warm and he would like me to get ...
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...
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...
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...
Read by.................. Stephen ThorneAbr/Unabr.............. UnabridgedGenre................... Fiction - MysterySource................... 6 Cassette TapesTotal Runtime......... 6 Hours 46 Minsblurb - It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go down on their knees for the privilege ...
The fourth of the Alan Grant books (if you count the Franchise Affair, which admittedly is only tangentially an Alan Grant book), this is the first one to finish with the case actually being -solved- rather than ending with a deus ex machina with the solution falling in their laps (or the guilty giv...
Not my favorite of her books, but I had never read it before. If you’re going to read a Tey, read The Daughter of Time, or Brat Farrer. (Jan. 2008)
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 ...
[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,...
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