The Franchise Affair
  • Published: 25 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241639139
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.00

The Franchise Affair

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25 Jul 2023
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1 Oct 2022
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13 Jul 2023
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8 Jun 2011
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One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious

Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abuse, describing the attic room of the house as her prison. Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant is called to solve the mystery of the Franchise, but will he fall right in the middle of nightmarish affair that will change a town, and its locals' lives, forever?
  • Published: 25 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241639139
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.00
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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.

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

The perfect introduction to her world.

Val McDermid

An ingenious book ... The essential mystery is wonderfully established; the claustrophobic building-up of the apparently seamless case against the Sharpes is impeccably done.

Sarah Waters

Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate.

New York Times

A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable.

Sunday Times