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To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

Josephine Tey

Start date: June 1, 2025

Finish date: June 30, 2025

Discussion: Group reads

Why we're reading this: Winner of our June group read poll.
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* November 2025 group read - Winner!
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May 17, 2023 Jill rated it it was amazing

Shelves: jill-s-ninth-year-challenge, josephine-tey

This starts with Inspector Grant arriving at a cocktail party in London to meet his friend Marta. At about the same time a young American man arrives and asks Grant if he could point out a Walter Whitmore among the guests, and although Walter is not there, he takes him though to Walter's relatives. It seems this young man is an American , Leslie Searles, is a photographer who has a friend that Whitmore knows. Grant has no more contact with Searles until Scotland Yard get a report that Leslie Sea ...more

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May 25, 2014 Lesley rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery-detective

While Tey's crime mysteries don't suit the true crime/detection reader, I find them subtle, wonderful in character depth and beautifully written. ...more

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Sep 01, 2015 ShanDizzy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Very very interesting...thoroughly enjoyable read

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Mar 20, 2014 GeraniumCat rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, crime, library

The perfect Golden Age type of mystery, set in an English village, with an attractive policeman (Inspector Alan Grant), a nice sidekick (Sergeant Williams), a number of sympathetic characters, and a twist in the tail. I think it could be my favourite of the Grant books so far.

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Jul 05, 2021 Kat rated it really liked it

“At Scotland Yard, it was said Alan Grant had two vices: coffee and coffee.”
I love the wit in the writing but make no mistake, one has to be willing to plunge into a certain dialect to make the prose sing.

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Oct 19, 2016 Melinda rated it really liked it

Well the author certainly fooled me. You are made to feel all along that something is false about the set up but I never would have guessed the truth.

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