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  • To Love and Be Wise

    An Inspector Alan Grant Mystery of a Vanished American Photographer in an English Artistic Village

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Josephine Tey's *To Love and Be Wise* (1950) is a sophisticated Golden Age detective novel in which the disappearance of Leslie Searle, a charismatic American visitor, unsettles an apparently tranquil English community. Rather than treating the village merely as a puzzle-box setting, Tey examines its social hierarchies, private loyalties, and subtly shifting narratives. The investigation, ... Read more

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  • The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant Mystery)

    Enriched edition. A Scotland Yard Detective Reopens the Princes in the Tower Mystery and Tudor Propaganda

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Josephine Tey's 'The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant Mystery)' is a captivating novel that delves into historical investigation and detective work. The story follows Inspector Alan Grant as he investigates the infamous mystery surrounding the princes in the Tower of London. Tey's literary style is filled with suspense and intrigue, keeping readers on the edge of their seats as they follow ... Read more

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  • Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries - Complete Series

    Detective Novels: The Daughter of Time, The Man in the Queue, The Franchise Affair…

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Inspector Alan Grant is a Scotland Yard detective who relies on his instincts and often goes against the evidence if his gut feeling says so. He is thorough and systematic in his investigations and always pulls through. Contents: "The Man in the Queue" (or Killer in the Crowd) – Inspector Grant investigates a murder of a man who was stabbed in the ticket line in front of theatre. There are ... Read more

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  • Collected Works of Josephine Tey. Illustrated

    The Man in the Queue, A Shilling for Candles, The Franchise Affair, To Love and Be Wise, The Daughter of Time and others

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under ... Read more

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  • Miss Pym Disposes

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Lucy Pym, best-selling author of a book on psychology (though she is not a psychologist), arrives at a physical training college for young women, where her school friend is headmistress, to give a lecture. She likes the college and the girls, and ends up staying on past the lecture, observing the relationships between the girls and the staff members and some outsiders. One of the girls is killed- ... Read more

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  • The Franchise Affair

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Solicitor Robert Blair is about to leave his office in a small English town when the phone rings. Marion Sharpe, who lives with her mother in a large, but very run-down country house called The Franchise, wants him to come immediately because she and her mother are being accused of a crime. A 15 year old girl named Betty Kane arrived with the police and accused the two women of kidnapping her, ... Read more

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  • Miss Pym Disposes (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Mystery Novel

    by Josephine Tey, Daphne Ulwick ...
    Miss Pym Disposes is an ingenious psychological mystery set in a women's physical-training college, where Lucy Pym, a popular lecturer on psychology, becomes entangled in the moral and emotional tensions beneath the institution's disciplined surface. Rather than relying on conventional detection, Tey builds suspense through observation, character, and ethical ambiguity, transforming an apparently ... Read more

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  • British Murder Mysteries - The Josephine Tey Collection

    Enriched edition.

    by Josephine Tey, Hannah Mead ...
    In "British Murder Mysteries - The Josephine Tey Collection," readers are invited into a world where psychological depth meets intricate plotting. Tey expertly weaves her narratives with a distinctive literary style characterized by sharp dialogue, vivid characterization, and a keen exploration of moral ambiguity. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Britain, her stories interrogate ... Read more

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  • JOSEPHINE TEY - Ultimate Mystery Collection

    Inspector Alan Grant Novels & Other Detective Tales: The Daughter of Time, The Franchise Affair…

    by Josephine Tey ...
    This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries: The Man in the Queue (Killer in the Crowd) A Shilling for Candles The Franchise Affair To Love and Be Wise The Daughter of Time The Singing Sands Other Mysteries: Miss Pym Disposes Brat Farrar (Come and Kill Me) ... Read more

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  • Miss Pym Disposes (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)

    Enriched edition. A Vintage Psychological Mystery at a Physical Training College

    by Josephine Tey ...
    In 'Miss Pym Disposes' by Josephine Tey, the reader is taken on a thrilling journey through the world of psychological crime fiction. Tey's unique literary style combines elements of mystery with deep psychological insight into the human mind, making this book a standout in the vintage mystery genre. The story follows Miss Pym, a retired schoolteacher who finds herself entangled in a murder ... Read more

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  • BRITISH MURDER MYSTERIES: The Greatest Thrillers of Josephine Tey (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Golden Age British Detective Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, and Inspector Alan Grant

    by Josephine Tey, Daphne Ulwick ...
    BRITISH MURDER MYSTERIES: The Greatest Thrillers of Josephine Tey gathers the work of one of the most idiosyncratic voices of Golden Age detection, where crime is less a mechanical puzzle than an inquiry into character, memory, and social performance. Tey's mysteries combine elegant prose, dry wit, and psychological acuity, often resisting formulaic sensationalism in favour of ambiguity and moral ... Read more

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  • The Man in the Queue

    by Josephine Tey ...
    First published in 1929. A young man is stabbed in the back with a stiletto dagger while waiting in the queue for standing room at one of the final West End performances of a hit musical comedy. None of those near him in the queue noticed him until he collapsed, or appear to have any motive for killing him. The dead man carries no identification; the only item found on him is a service revolver. ... Read more

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