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A Shilling For Candles

Josephine Tey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:3rd Feb '11

Should be back in stock very soon

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A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction.

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact.

Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...

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...

Richly rewarding ... a joy absolute. * New York Times *

ISBN: 9780099556688

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 18mm

Weight: 180g

256 pages