An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

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An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

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Detective Inspector Archie Penrose, a friend of Tey's, takes on the case and soon fears that her safety may also be in jeopardy. She looked on, amused, as the waiter transferred his attentions from Elspeth to another table, where he spent more time than was strictly necessary polishing a crystal glass for a young woman dining alone.

When there's a second murder in the West End he knows that there's a ruthless and sadistic killer in the theatre set. What's particularly impressive is that this is a work of fiction but inspired by real people and events thus leaving Nicola Upson little room for manoeuvre.Having not, as yet, ever read anything by the crime author Josephine Tey I wasn’t sure how well I would get along with Nicola Upson’s debut novel ‘An Expert in Murder’ as Tey herself is one of the principal characters. When they arrive at King's Cross to Elspeth's delight they're met by one of the stars of the show but their arrival coincides with a murder on the train. Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by a shy woman for her detective novels, and who wrote her plays under a male pseudonym.

You’re right–my adoptive mother taught me everything, but we’re not very much alike, although we get on tremendously well. Had she not known her, Lydia would never have guessed that this quiet Scottish woman, dressed simply in a dark suit and pearls, was the author of the biggest hit in the West End. When Elspeth is found murdered in the train carriage, Inspector Archie Penrose has to investigate the death and the strange links to Josephine’s play. Nothing about Josephine had changed since Lydia first became aware of her as a shadowy presence in the stalls during rehearsals. She paused, absent-mindedly curling a lock of brown hair round her finger as she looked out of the window.Nicola Upson's clever and evocative debut novel also belongs to the sub-genre of already-celebrity detective fiction.

DI Penrose, a death-haunted bachelor who asks penetrating questions in a gentle voice, feels like a relative of Adam Dalgliesh; like James, Upson likes to provide an elegant inventory of the architectural and interior design features of the story's locations.Set in the theatre world in London, where Tey's play "Richard of Bordeaux" is ending its long and sucessful run. It’s going on tour, after all, and it’s lovely to think that people all over the country will see it.

Tey, traveling from Scotland to London by train for the last week of her play, "Richard of Bordeaux," befriends a young woman during the train ride and then arrives in London to discover the woman has been murdered.Bright, clean, square covers and spine; faintly shelf-scuffed; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. Ever the actress, she always felt an affinity with the transience and variety of somewhere like King’s Cross: the wandering population of travellers and street traders had an anonymity which intrigued her and a colour which appealed to her weakness for showmanship and talent for mimicry.



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