Elizabeth Recommends
Josephine Tey Mysteries
This month I’d like to recommend three wonderful Josephine Tey mysteries. If you’ve read the August newsletter, you know about these delightful books. Alan Grant, an Inspector for Scotland Yard, is called upon in these books—The Singing Sands, A Shilling for Candles, and The Man in the Queue—to solve a variety of mysteries. Who killed the young man in Compartment B Seven on the train from England to Scotland and why did this young man scribble words about “stones that walk, the singing sands…” on a newspaper before he died? Who put a small pearl-handled dagger in the shoulder of a man standing in a theatre line waiting to watch a play starring his ex-girlfriend? Why did the film star Christine Clay leave a ranch in California to a house guest she had just met, writing this addition to her will only the night before she mysteriously drowned in the sea at 6AM the next morning?
Tey, born Elizabeth MacKintosh in 1897 in Scotland, is considered one of the best mystery writers of all times. If you want an afternoon of delight, pick up one of her books. It’s summer time reading at its best.
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