This wishlist book is coming in the mail from Better World Books as a birthday present as part of the 2023 Birthday Group. A card with the label is also on its way. Enjoy!

thank you so much for this wishlist title :)
and for being part of my birthday celebrations this year :)

last year i did a course - armchair detectives - where we read and discussed the evolution of the crime novel from the 1920s through to modern day - Josephine Tey was the featured author for the 1940s and i did want to reread this classic novel and maybe keep it on my permanent shelf

thanks again
happy reading

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Josephine Tey is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh, born in Scotland 1896.

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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Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise.

Unremarkable that is, until the police turn up with a demure young woman on their doorstep. Not only does Betty Kane accuse them of kidnap and abuse, she can back up her claim with a detailed description of the attic room in which she was kept, right down to the crack in its round window. But there's something about Betty Kane's story that doesn't quite add up.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stumped. It takes Robert Blair, solicitor turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair.