- Fiction, mystery, Large type books, Kidnapping
Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Josephine Tey
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Reprint Society, DuMont, paretiritis
- Editions
- 105
- Language
- German, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9798545887989
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“It was four o'clock of a spring evening; and Robert Blair was thinking of going home.”
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.
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