A review by robynryle
A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

3.0

Daughter of Time was much more interesting, but an enjoyable enough mystery. Alfred Hitchcock made a movie based on this. The story is about a young British starlet whose body turns up drowned. There's a cute little teenage character who appears to have a crush on the Scotland Yard detective, and I'm not sure if they appear again, or if it's just an odd kind of aside. I find Tey even more British than Agatha Christie, and in a way that's sometimes less penetrable to a Yank.