#2 Inspector Alan Grant

A Shilling for Candles

Josephine Tey
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Was there anyone who didn’t want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead?Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actress is found lying dead on the beach one bright summer’s morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive—just like murder…
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeBritish LiteratureAudiobookClassicsDetectiveHistorical FictionMystery ThrillerGolden Age Mystery
251 Pages

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