Overview
Josephine Tey's page-turning classic thriller from the Golden Age of crime fiction 'The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world' VAL MCDERMID 'The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day' JOSEPH KNOX When Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit? 'Will leave you desperate to re-read' SARAH HILARY 'Worth reading for its ingenious denouement'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Full Product Details
Author: Josephine Tey
Publisher: Cornerstone
Imprint: Penguin (Cornerstone)
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.193kg
ISBN: 9781529156430
ISBN 10: 1529156432
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 22 September 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings. - Spectator Worth reading for its ingenious denouement. - Times Literary Supplement Nobody can beat Miss Tey at characterisation or elegance of style: this novel's a beauty. - San Francisco Chronicle
The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world -- Val McDermid The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day -- Joseph Knox Will leave you desperate to re-read -- Sarah Hilary Worth reading for its ingenious denouement * Times Literary Supplement * One of the best mysteries of all time * New York Times * As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays * Observer * Nobody can beat Miss Tey at characterisation or elegance of style: this novel's a beauty * San Francisco Chronicle * First-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written * Los Angeles Times * Suspense is achieved by unexpected twists and extremely competent storytelling . . . credible and convincing * Spectator * Tey's style and her knack for creating bizarre characters are among the best in the field * New Yorker *
Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings. -- Spectator Worth reading for its ingenious denouement. -- Times Literary Supplement Nobody can beat Miss Tey at characterisation or elegance of style: this novel's a beauty. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Author Information
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
