An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

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Josephine Tey was a bit of a mystery. She was a private person, little is known about her, and that which is known seems to indicate that she deliberately kept her affairs separate from each other - i.e. she led a multitude of lives - one as playwright, one as a mystery writer, one in Inverness, another in London, perhaps quite another somewhere else. acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Additionally, while I tried to put together a collection that contains I sound cynical. But it was cute. It's just such a well used plot now you can't really describe it without sounding cynical. It's a cozy. And we all know how cozies end. And they all sound a little lame when you describe them. However, what is a little rarer in cosies was the graphic and gruesome portrayal of the murders and the murder scenes (the placement of the dolls in particular made me wonder if this was a horror story for a moment). This seemed odd for the genre (which this book is obviously being marketed towards). If I’d been involved in the editing, I’d have advised that this, along with the amount of swearing, should have been reined in for a cosy's target audience.

A young seamstress—an ex-convict determined to reform—has been found brutally slain in the studio of Tey’s friends, the Motley sisters, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala. Despite initial appearances, Inspector Archie Penrose is not convinced this murder is the result of a long-standing domestic feud—and a horrific accident involving a second young woman soon after supports his convictions. Gregarious only within a small circle, however: Mairi MacDonald found Tey’s unwillingness to meet strangers “almost pathological in its intensity.” Having decided to model Brat Farrar’s physical appearance on that of a well-known racehorse dealer, she asked her friend Caroline Ramsden to find out all she could about him. “It isn’t a question of wanting to meet him—which I should actively dislike,” she wrote to Ramsden. “It is a quite detached curiosity about him…. What he thinks, reads (I suppose he can?), says, eats; whether he likes his bacon frizzly or flaccid…. It always happens with someone I see casually, like that; and once my curiosity is satisfied my interest finishes. But until the picture is complete the curiosity is devouring.” However, the book has made me want to read more of real life Tey’s books. I’m a little perplexed by why she isn’t as well known today as some of her contemporaries, despite how apparently successful she was when she was alive. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow,” Knox decreed. “The ‘stupid friend’ of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader…. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.”However, I felt that the central murder plot is both satisfying and highly artificial: far too many coincidences abound in how these people, linked through incidents that happened twenty years ago, find themselves in the same close circle. That said, Upson writes fluently and gives her characters emotional pasts and depths that are not frequently met with in GA novels. It appears I may have found that most rare of things: a literary tribute (a.k.a. fan-fiction) that worked for me! Mi-au placut atat descrierile strazilor din Londra, a garilor si atmosfera din luxosul West End, cat si faptul ca ne-a permis sa patrundem in culisele teatrului. De asemenea actorul principal al piesei, John Terry, m-a dus cu gandul la celebrul fundas de la Chelsea Londra si totodata fostul capitan al selectionatei Angliei.

The first World War, though over now by several years, looms over the lives of the characters, and factors into the actions of various suspects, including the lives of the family of the young woman Josephine meets on a train at the beginning of the book, and who spends several enjoyable hours chatting with Josephine, before the young woman is murdered.De investigatie se va ocupa inspectorul Penrose si el pasionat de teatru dar care, la fel ca si eroina este marcat de o intamplare traumatizanta din razboi.