Scan barcode
A review by greybeard49
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
4.0
Exemplary detective novel written during a period when different societal values were the norm. Tey's book is highly regarded by her writer peers and she writes prose exquisitely. Reading her immerses you in a different time period. You will have to put up with her ideas about how society should be ordered and the way that people should behave, most of which is laudable but certainly not PC today.
Her crime writing is 'gentle' if that makes sense. She ushers you along the road to her denouement and her heroes are certainly not in the swashbuckling mode. A strength of the book, however, is how it recognises and highlights the pernicious power of the press and the disastrous consequences that can result from the wielding of that power. The novel was published in 1949.
Take an enjoyable trip, with some very good company, down the country lanes of post war Britain.
Her crime writing is 'gentle' if that makes sense. She ushers you along the road to her denouement and her heroes are certainly not in the swashbuckling mode. A strength of the book, however, is how it recognises and highlights the pernicious power of the press and the disastrous consequences that can result from the wielding of that power. The novel was published in 1949.
Take an enjoyable trip, with some very good company, down the country lanes of post war Britain.