- Fiction, Investigation, Murder, Mystery
A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatreMarch 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux.
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Classical in form, nostalgic, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nicola Upson
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Faber and Faber, Harper
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061670190
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