A Shilling for Candles [Inspector Alan Grant #2]
Book Details
| Title: | A Shilling for Candles [Inspector Alan Grant #2] | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1936 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | The Macmillan Company | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, mystery, film/TV adaptation | ||||||||||
| Description: | A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes a nightmare, as too many clues and too many motives arise. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 3,400 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 169  |
Author Bio for Mackintosh, Elizabeth
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays with an historical theme.
In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a minor character.) The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books 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. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes.
In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; The Franchise Affair was...
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