An Expert in Murder: A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey

An Expert in Murder: A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey image
ISBN-10:

0061451533

ISBN-13:

9780061451539

Author(s): Upson, Nicola
Edition: 1
Released: May 20, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
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Description:

A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatre

March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride, and Tey quickly finds herself plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any of those in her own works.

Detective Inspector Archie Penrose is convinced that the killing is connected to her play. Richard of Bordeaux has been the surprise hit of the season, with pacifist themes that strike a chord in a world still haunted by war. Now, however, it seems that Tey could become the victim of her own success, as her reputation—and even her life—is put at risk.

A second murder confirms Penrose's suspicions that somewhere among this flamboyant theatre set is a ruthless and spiteful killer. Together, Penrose and Tey must confront their own ghosts in search of someone who will stop at nothing.

An Expert in Murder is both a tribute to one of the most enduringly popular writers of crime and a richly atmospheric detective novel in its own right.


























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