A Shilling For Candles

Nov 2, 2024 8:33 AM

Author:Josephine Tey

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 beautiful young film actress 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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—— Nelson Demille

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—— Publishers Weekly

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—— Larry Lasker

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—— Booklist

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—— Daily Telegraph

Crammed with period detail, it's as much a novel of ideas as it is of character

—— Val McDermid , The Week

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