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MacKintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother. In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a
The subsequent police-like investigation that Grant undertakes during the remainder of the novel in order to find some circumstantial evidence that Richard (or anyone else) disposed of the princes reveals that there never was a Bill of Attainder, coroner's inquest, or any other legal proceeding that contemporaneously accused – much less ...
A Shilling for Candles is a 1936 mystery novel by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) first published in 1936 by Methuen in the UK. It is the second of Tey's six mysteries featuring Inspector Alan Grant, and the first book written under the Josephine Tey pseudonym.
He does break it out of interest, however, in order to visit a Hebridean island that is supposed to be distinguished by the 'singing sands' that give the book its title. As the symptoms of stress begin to disappear in the book's second half, Grant returns to London, unsatisfied with the inquest's verdict of death by misadventure. A newspaper ...
On the page where the official order is given, the author writes: "One caveat – the short story The Home Crowd Advantage is obviously set in 2012 during the London Olympics, but because it was written before the chronology of the series had firmed up it contains a number of anachronisms. I've learnt to be philosophical about this sort of thing."
Inspector Alan Grant is brought onto the case and he follows several painstaking leads, first to learn the identity of the dead man and then to track that possible killer who approached the dead man in the queue. Just one person notices the victim, and recalls another man who came to argue with the victim, and describes their appearance to Grant.
In 1988, Qiu went on a Ford Foundation grant to Washington University in St. Louis to work on a book about T.S. Eliot. [9] Eliot was born in St. Louis, and his grandfather founded the university. But in 1989, Qiu and fellow Chinese academics were stunned to watch TV reports of the severe government crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests .
George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902–1982), a crime writer and bank manager [1] born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire.He began working for Martins Bank at the age of 15, and stayed there in escalating roles of seniority until his retirement.