A Shilling For Candles
May 2011 · Random House
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Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning.
Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...
Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...
Ratings and reviews
4.1
8 reviews
Alison Robinson
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July 18, 2023
No such disappointment with this novel. Although I had no clue as to the murderer's identity, and Josephine Tey did a good job of throwing lots of potential suspects into the mix, the motive and the means for the murder were all there and the character was present throughout the book. However, discovery of the potential murderer's identity was only achieved by Grant happening to read a six-month old article about Chris at the barber's.
Louise Ricketts
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August 6, 2015
Love Josephine Tey. Good thriller I did not suspect who the culprit was.
About the author
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
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