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 …

Friday’s Forgotten Books

Friday's Forgotten Books is a weekly meme hosted by Pattinase where one talks about books that have been forgotten in the course of time. Here is my first entry:Desmond Bagley's The Tightrope Men (1973) is an espionage thriller about a man who wakes up one day to find that the face peering back at him from …

Journey of the Self: Aatish Taseer’s Stranger to History

"I had sought out my father because I couldn't live with the darkness of not knowing him."Absent fathers make for haunting presence. Think of Hamlet, Ghosts, and The Glass Menagerie.Aatish Taseer's first book: Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands is a young man's search for his father who like the father in …

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 …