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A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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 is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however c ...Show more
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction.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 Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of ...Show more
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
An imposter has a fortune to win and his life to lose in this gripping country house mysteryA stranger enters the Ashby family home posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every sign ...Show more
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVERScotland Yard inspector Alan Grant, recovering from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary po ...Show more
The Franchise Affair: Their Country House Will Soon Play Host to a Nightmare by Josephine Tey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Betty Kane, a demure young woman, accuses them of kidnapping and abuse. It takes Robert Blair, solicitor tu ...Show more
The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last... But as they do so, one of their number falls to the ground - a man, stabbed in the back with a stiletto while people jostled for position in the throng. There is nothing in the man's ...Show more
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
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 misadventure - but Grant is not so sure. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper ...Show more
To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
'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 KNOXWhen Hollywood-star photographer Leslie ...Show more
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