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Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

Start date: July 1, 2019

Finish date: July 31, 2019

Discussion: Group reads

Why we're reading this: This was a very close runner-up in our June poll, so we decided to read it in July.
[close] This was a very close runner-up in our June poll, so we decided to read it in July.

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What Members Thought

Feb 12, 2014 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it it was ok

Shelves: female-gumshoe, mystery-murder-crime-20th-century

Very slow moving & with very dated racial attitudes. I only gave it 2 stars because the twist at the end genuinely surprised me.

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May 15, 2017 Jazz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: amateur-sleuth, best-of-2017, mystery-british, golden-age-mystery-pre-1950, mystery-academic

This was my first taste of Tey and it greatly impressed me--especially because it's not a traditional mystery, and that's what I thought I had set out to read. The fact it kept my interest and that it became a page-turner for me, when there was no immediate and apparent crime, says a lot for Miss Tey's skills. The writing was impeccable and, though the character's names confused me at first, each individual soon became clear and distinguished in my mind. Even though the closing scenes didn't com ...more

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