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A Shilling for Candles
  • ISBN: 9780099556688
  • Pages: 256
  • Publisher: Arrow Books
  • Binding : Paperback

A Shilling for Candles

Josephine Tey
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‘A recurrent sleuth has always been a favoured device for thriller-writers: Agatha Christie had her Hercule Poirot, Dorothy L. Sayers her Lord Peter Wimsey. However, in my opinion no one has ever invented a detective to equal the style and charm of Inspector Alan Grant.’ Clarissa Burden, Slightly Foxed, Issue 71

A Shilling for Candles is the second book of the Inspector Alan Grant series by Josephine Tey, set in 1930s England.

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 film actress, known as Christine Clay, 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.



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