First published in 1936, this is one of the novels featuring Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. A pretty young girl's body is found by a coastguard at the foot of a sea cliff, the foam of the largest waves just lapping over her scarlet toenails as the world wakes to another brilliant summer's day.
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First published in 1936, this is one of the novels featuring Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. A pretty young girl's body is found by a coastguard at the foot of a sea cliff, the foam of the largest waves just lapping over her scarlet toenails as the world wakes to another brilliant summer's day.
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I love Josephine Tey and wish she had lived longer. This book pleases on many levels but especially in her characterisation. It IS old-fashioned, but none the worse for that. And as an insight into the ways things were done in genteel society in the early-mid twentieth century it fits the bill admirably.
Inspector Grant always 'gets his man', but the idiosyncratic way in which he does so is always interesting.
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May 24, 2013
Josephine Tey
I recently reread my collection of Josephine Tey and my copy of A Shilling for Candles fell apart, so I needed to replace it. Her books are classics.