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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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Aug 27, 2018 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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

Josephine Tey's life was cut tragically short. If not for this I do believe would be talking about "The Big Five" Golden Age Detective Writers, rather than "The Big Four."I can't comment on Margery Allingham's works as I have only read one, but Tey at her best is definitely superior to Ngaio Marsh - & while Tey has weaker works, so do Sayers & Christie. This particular novel is all kinds of awesome & one of the very few 5★ I have given this year for fiction that isn't a reread.

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Mar 20, 2014 GeraniumCat rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime, library, mystery

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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