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dknippling 's review for:
The Franchise Affair
by Josephine Tey
I didn't enjoy this as much for the mystery as I did The Daughter of Time, but I enjoyed the descriptions even better:
"At the Fortescue, the Edwardian old place in Jermyn Street, where he had stayed ever since he was first allowed to go to London on his own, they greeted him like a nephew and gave him "the room he had last time"; a dim comfortable box with a shoulder-high bed and a buttoned-plush settee; and brought him up a tray on which reposed and out-size brown kitchen teapot, a Georgian silver cream jug, about a pound of sugar lumps in a sixpenny glass dish, a Dresden cup with flowers and little castles, a red-and-gold Worchester plate made for "their Maj's" William IV and his Queen, and a much buckled kitchen knife with a stained brown handle."
"At the Fortescue, the Edwardian old place in Jermyn Street, where he had stayed ever since he was first allowed to go to London on his own, they greeted him like a nephew and gave him "the room he had last time"; a dim comfortable box with a shoulder-high bed and a buttoned-plush settee; and brought him up a tray on which reposed and out-size brown kitchen teapot, a Georgian silver cream jug, about a pound of sugar lumps in a sixpenny glass dish, a Dresden cup with flowers and little castles, a red-and-gold Worchester plate made for "their Maj's" William IV and his Queen, and a much buckled kitchen knife with a stained brown handle."