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The Franchise Affair
By (Author) Josephine Tey
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
25th July 2023
13th July 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm
224g
A country house detective novel featuring the beloved Inspector Grant, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern Classics Marion Sharpe 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
Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate. * New York Times *
An ingenious book ... The essential mystery is wonderfully established; the claustrophobic building-up of the apparently seamless case against the Sharpes is impeccably done. -- Sarah Waters
A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable. * Sunday Times *
The perfect introduction to her world. -- Val McDermid
Josephine Tey 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. It wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Born in Inverness, Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.