The Franchise Affair
  • Published: 8 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409006893
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

The Franchise Affair

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25 Jul 2023
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1 Oct 2022
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8 Jun 2011
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A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction

'An ingenious book' SARAH WATERS

'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMES

Marion Shape 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?

'Josephine Tey enjoys a category to herself' NEW STATESMAN
  • Published: 8 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409006893
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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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 Singing Sands
Miss Pym Disposes
A Shilling For Candles
To Love and Be Wise
Brat Farrar
The Man In The Queue
The Daughter of Time
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Praise for The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair is 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

The New York Times

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

Sunday Times

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

Observer

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

Spectator

Really first class . . . a continual delight

Times Literary Supplement

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

New Yorker

First-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written

Los Angeles Times

Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings

The Spectator

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

New York Times