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A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

Josephine Tey

Start date: December 15, 2024

Finish date: January 8, 2025

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Apr 03, 2017 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-murder-crime-20th-century

4.5★ Can't make it 5★as the clues weren't there for the reader to solve themselves (although Tey did lead one up the garden path! I do love a good garden path wander!)

Mysterious and charismatic actress Christine Clay is found drowned. Initial evidence points a charming young wastrel that Clay recently befriended - but is Robin Tisdall the guilty party? Or is it someone from the past that Clay has been reinventing?

And she used to tell a different story each time. When someone pointed out that tha

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Aug 08, 2025 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: josephine-tey

A good solid golden age detective story. Albeit a 17 year old girl had to clear a wrongly accused suspect. Grant investigates the suspicious death of Christine Clay a movie star that drowned. The discovery of a button tangled in her hair, and signs of struggle on her hands leads Grant to believe she was murdered. Her houseguest Tisdall a man without means and with an odd story leads to him being a suspect.

Lots of suspects and I liked it was set in and around the South Downs where I live. There ...more

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