Fun read! Full of charming characters, gentle humor and a well plotted mystery. I really the character of Inspector Alan Grant. Not afraid to get his information a little outside of the 'rules', but full of caring and sympathy.

I don't want to give away too much about the book and spoil your fun of reading it for yourself... Tisdale is a fun character on the run from Inspector Grant and his men. He's their key suspect. The police chief's daughter, Erica, is sure he is innocent and goes out on the limb to help him. She brings him food until he turns up missing and then she is on the hunt for the item the police are looking for, as she's sure it will clear him. Erica is a great character and Grant has a soft spot for her. Does she find the item? Does it clear Tisdale? Do they ever find Tisdale? And does romance bud between the two?

There are lots of interesting suspects, fellow actors who hated working with Christine, a husband who is a Lord, a male friend who shows up the morning they find her body and every says they are lovers, an astrologer who predicted her death and a no good brother out for her money. It could be any of them. I certainly didn't guess the right person! See if you can!

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Tey's The Daughter of Time is on my Top Ten Favorite Mysteries books, but this one wasn't up to that level. I thought some of the run-on paragraphs spouted by some of the characters were too much, the pages-long searching done by the young girl to clear a man she didn't even know, the long side-trip about the brother, and the obscure reference at the end of the book that made me search through parts at the beginning, all detracted from the book's flow and enjoyment. An OK read, but not up there with her best book.

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I love Josephine Tey's book and this was another great one! It kept me guessing.

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