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Josephine Tey
One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious
Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the…
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An imposter has a fortune to win and his life to lose in this gripping country house mystery
A stranger enters the Ashby family home posing as Patrick Ashby, the…
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In one of Tey’s bestselling mystery novels ever, Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to one…
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When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it’s up to Inspector Alan Grant to discover whether he accidentally drowned, committed suicide, or met his death at the hands of…
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Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of…
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Nicola Upson
For fans of classic detective stories, including the mysteries of Agatha Christie, comes this brilliant first novel set in the exotic world of British theater in the 1930s.
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Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had…
Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. This book investigates his role…
________________________________ ‘An ingenious book’ Sarah Waters, Guardian The Franchise is a beautiful country home. And it takes Robert Blair, local solicitor turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies…
A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family’s sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on…
A gripping mix of historical and contemporary crime, voted the number one crime novel of all time.
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A young girl claims she was kidnapped and abused, but who is really telling the truth?
Robert Blair, a local solicitor, is called on to defend two women, Marion Sharpe and her mother, who are accused of kidnapping and beating a fifteen-year-old war orphan named Betty…
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Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer-whom no one saw. A long line…
A woman’s body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes a nightmare, as too…
On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of…
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant becomes involved in a murder investigation when he accidentally finds a dead young man and an enigmatic verse in a train.
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is highly skeptical of a young woman’s tale of her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment in a musty attic–until an enterprising young lawyer shines a…
A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family’s sizeable fortune.
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress…
The story is about the Ashbys, an English country-squire family. Their centuries-old family estate is Latchetts, in the fictional village of Clare, near the south coast of England. It takes…
A guest lecturer at a college for women, psychologist Miss Pym steps in to prevent a young student from cheating during final exams, an act of compassion that precipitates a…
The ninth novel in the Josephine Tey series –Dust jacket flap.
Josephine Tey, a sharp-witted amateur sleuth based on the celebrated Golden Age mystery writer, returns in the seventh in Upson’s critically acclaimed series, perfect for readers of Agatha Christie and…
December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St…
Jennifer Morag Henderson
Celebrating the 125th anniversary of MacKintosh’s birth, this updated edition of the definitive biography includes a new preface.
It takes a village to bury a child …
1 September 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside. But when…
Meanwhile, her friend, Inspector Archie Penrose is investigating the sadistic murder of a young seamstress, found dead in the Motley sisters’ studio, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala.
Exhausted and disillusioned with the world of theater in May 1935, Josephine Tey has traveled to Cornwall to spend the summer with her friends, the Motleys, at their run-down but…
Third in the gripping new golden age detective series featuring Josephine Tey
A snowy Christmas gathering on an island off the Cornish coast goes murderously wrong in this festive Golden Age mystery.
December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe…
When British novelist Josephine Tey inherits her estranged godmother’s home Red Barn Cottage, murder and intrigue from a century ago still haunts the village and could be connected to the…
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If Patrick really had committed suicide, who was this mysterious young man claiming to be him and calling himself Brat Farrar? It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving…
Josephine Tey,Ralph Mowat
Word count 24,510 Bestseller
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