A couple of years back, I read Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes which was not so much about a murder in a boarding school as a deconstruction of the process of detection where it was the limitations of the detective - subjectivity, prejudices, likes, dislikes, - that was interrogated. It was a novel that broadened … Continue reading Forgotten Book: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
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F is for Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
At times, a book can lead you to another book. When I read Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, I came to know that the book was influenced by Waters' reading of Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair. Since I wanted some questions answered as regards The Little Stranger, I downloaded Tey's book.About to close his office, the lawyer Robert … Continue reading F is for Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
A Pit in Dothan: Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar
He walked slowly across the room until he was standing face to face with Brat by the window. He had abnormally clear grey eyes with adarker rim to the iris, but they had no expression in them. Nor had his pale features any expression. He was so tightly strung, Brat thought,that if you plucked him … Continue reading A Pit in Dothan: Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar