To Love and Be Wise
  • Published: 1 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529156430
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99

To Love and Be Wise

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1 Oct 2022
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30 Jun 2011
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Josephine Tey's page-turning classic thriller from the Golden Age of crime fiction

'The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world' VAL MCDERMID

'The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day' JOSEPH KNOX

When Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit?

'Will leave you desperate to re-read' SARAH HILARY

'Worth reading for its ingenious denouement'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
  • Published: 1 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529156430
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She 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. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.

Also by Josephine Tey

The Franchise Affair
The Singing Sands
Miss Pym Disposes
A Shilling For Candles
Brat Farrar
The Man In The Queue
The Daughter of Time
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Praise for To Love and Be Wise

The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world

Val McDermid

The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day

Joseph Knox

Will leave you desperate to re-read

Sarah Hilary

Worth reading for its ingenious denouement

Times Literary Supplement

One of the best mysteries of all time

New York Times

As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays

Observer

Nobody can beat Miss Tey at characterisation or elegance of style: this novel's a beauty

San Francisco Chronicle

First-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written

Los Angeles Times

Suspense is achieved by unexpected twists and extremely competent storytelling . . . credible and convincing

Spectator

Tey's style and her knack for creating bizarre characters are among the best in the field

New Yorker