Josephine Tey (5 books in series)
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review 1: I'm waffling between 2 and 3 stars... I skimmed much of the novel as I was not interested in the "history of Hitchcock and early cinema" stuff. I felt as tho the author's research was much too obvious, as opposed to organic to the story. I didn't find myself caring a lot about ma...
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review 1: An interesting variation on a crime novel, with a real writer (Josephine Tey) fictionalised as an amateur sleuth in 1930s Britain. The story involves the partly-recovered & interpreted diaries of the eponymous Lucy Kyte from the rural Essex countryside of the 1820s...where the in...
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review 1: This is the second book by Nicola Upson to feature Josephine Tey, herself a celebrated mystery writer. Josephine goes to Cornwell to visit her friend Archie Penrose, and while she is visiting there is an apparent suicide, and a murder. There is a mysterious fire, a fey girl, a ...
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review 1: Josephine Tey begins a book about 2 women convicted and hanged for "baby farming" 40 years ago. She interviews some of the people involved but has no idea that this renewed interest in the case is causing someone she knows to become uneasy. When a young woman is brutally murder...
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review 1: This series revolves around the characters of mystery writer Josephine Tey and her friend Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Archie Penrose, who serves as the model for Tey’s fictional detective, Alan Grant. They are celebrating her fortieth birthday in 1936 in the Welsh village of P...