A review by thisisstephenbetts
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

4.0

A British howdunnit from 1951, I pickedup in a delightful new (to me anyway) Penguin imprint (called Penguin Crime & Espionage) while in the UK. It's a fun mystery, but extremely dated. The cheerful description of the different characteristics of Celtic Irish and Anglo Saxon Brits was a little toe-curling, and the breathless trust of the police is a bit much in a book where the main protagonist is a defense lawyer. Nonetheless a very enjoyable period piece.