The Franchise Affair: Their country house will soon play host to a nightmare...
Jun 2011 · Random House
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'An ingenious book' SARAH WATERS
'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMES
Marion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abuse, describing the attic room of the house as her prison. Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant is called to solve the mystery of the Franchise, but will he fall right in the middle of nightmarish affair that will change a town, and its locals' lives, forever?
'Josephine Tey enjoys a category to herself' NEW STATESMAN
'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMES
Marion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abuse, describing the attic room of the house as her prison. Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant is called to solve the mystery of the Franchise, but will he fall right in the middle of nightmarish affair that will change a town, and its locals' lives, forever?
'Josephine Tey enjoys a category to herself' NEW STATESMAN
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Alison Robinson
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July 18, 2023
Well, what a peculiar novel. How this can be billed as an Inspector Grant mystery when he barely appears in the book and definitely has no hand in solving the mystery I cannot imagine! Nevertheless, an enjoyable mystery where a local solicitor uncovers the truth behind an accusation that his clients imprisoned and beat a young girl to force her to be their servant.
Louise Ricketts
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December 18, 2015
I would put this book as one of ny too ten favourites
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About the author
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
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