A Shilling for Candles (Paperback)

from DeltaQueen50

Inspector Alan Grant is a professional first and foremost. He works his way through his cases and ultimately his legwork matched with his painstaking examination of the clues brings the guilty party to light. In A Shilling for Candles, he is discomforted by the realization that he has a "feeling"...

from ParadisePorch

This is the second in the Inspector Alan Grant and, as in the first, the solution to the mystery is a little weak. I want to love Josephine Tey, and I already own the rest of the Inspector Grant titles (Touchstone softcovers), except that most famous, The Daughter of Time. So I know I will be rea...

from smik

The discovery of the body of a popular screen actress washed up on a beach on the southern coast of England sparks an investigation headed by Scotland Yard's top detective, Inspector Alan Grant. Christine Clay's death hits the headlines, has a global impact, "society" dusts off its mourning black...

from LisaMaria_C

Josephine Tey is one of my favorite mystery authors--easily top five. This isn't a favorite book among her works though. Sadly, she only wrote eight. The introduction to the latest editions by Robert Barnard name The Daughter of Time, The Franchise Affair and Brat Farrar as the standouts; I'd add...

from ben_a

The last several weeks have been fallow ones for reading. I have been chewing my way through two big, meaty books (Winter's Tale and War and Human Civilization). Both are excellent, but I haven't been able to summon the motivation to really fly through either of them. I bought the Tey as a break,...