A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00AEZZWFO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 177 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive -- just like murder…. Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actress is found lying dead on the beach one bright summer’s morning
Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings.- Spectator
In six of the mystery novels, the most famous is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friend’s research reference book and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British-based Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; Her anot
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