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Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

Start date: October 1, 2025

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Mar 05, 2020 Christine PNW rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I've been really busy, so this slender book took me a much longer time to read than I expected. And not because it wasn't good, because it was good. Quite good.

This is my fourth Tey - I've already read Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair & The Singing Sands. What a sadness it is that she died so young. I'm directly in the middle of her oevre - I've read four and have four left to read.

Miss Pym is not my favorite of the bunch - that honor goes to Brat Farrar. But there hasn't been a Tey that I dis ...more

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Jul 24, 2022 Kate rated it liked it

Shelves: england, mysteries, 20th-century-literature, read-in-2022

"Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym's cover-up of one crime precipitates another -- a fatal 'accident' that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder."
~~back cover

A lovely excursion into Eng ...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: british-literature, e-books, suspense-thriller, fiction-20th-century, read-2013, gutenberg, mtbr-challenge-2013

Free download at Project Gutenberg Australia

A quite enjoyable reading for a Saturday afternoon.

5* The Daughter of Time
4* The Franchise Affair
3* The Singing Sands
4* Brat Farrar
4* A Schilling for Candles
4* The Man in the Queue
4* To Love and Be Wise
3* Miss Pym Disposes ...more

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