About this ebook
'The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world' VAL MCDERMID
'The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day' JOSEPH KNOX
When Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit?
'Will leave you desperate to re-read' SARAH HILARY
'Worth reading for its ingenious denouement'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day' JOSEPH KNOX
When Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit?
'Will leave you desperate to re-read' SARAH HILARY
'Worth reading for its ingenious denouement'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Ratings and reviews
3.8
5 reviews
Alison Robinson
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July 18, 2023
As with all the previous mysteries, I feel that there are lots of things which the reader doesn't see/hear which help to uncover the truth, very much of the fantastical Sherlock Holmes type of investigation rather than showing the reader all the clues so that they *could* guess the truth.
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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