The Franchise Affair (Paperback)

from Smiler69

Robert Blair is a sedate solicitor and the current head of a well established and respectable family firm in a small English town. He lives a quiet and predictable life and is content living with h...

from lahochstetler

This book offers an intriguing story, all the more intriguing because it is based on a real case from eighteenth-century Scotland. A teenage servant claims that she has been held against her will i...

from bcquinnsmom

Although this is listed as the third book in Tey's Alan Grant series, here he plays more of a background role rather than the main character. That honor goes to Robert Blair, a typical small-town E...

from mrtall

The Franchise Affair is a highly-readable crime novel that's not a murder mystery. The set-up is an odd one: a reclusive but respectable middle-aged woman and her elderly mother have been accused o...

from BookAngel_a

This has become one of my favorite mysteries of all time. A young girl named Betty Kane accuses a mysterious middle aged woman and her mother of beating and kidnapping her. Everyone believes the sw...