A Shilling for Candles
by Tey Josephine
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0671551795
- ISBN 13
- 9780671551797
- Seller
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Barberton, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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 , 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 theSecond World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust. From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Snowball Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EF4274
- Title
- A Shilling for Candles
- Author
- Tey Josephine
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0671551795
- ISBN 13
- 9780671551797
- Publisher
- Pocket Books, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- GRANT ALAN INSPECTOR FICTITIOUS CHARACTER
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