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A review by melissa_who_reads
To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
4.0
Tey's mysteries always have a twist - a subversion of the norm, and this one is no different.
Inspector Grant is called in to investigate the disappearance of a young photographer, who walked out of a bar and was never seen again. Murder? Suicide? Kidnapping? Grant investigates, with a prime source being his sometime date, the actress Marta Holland. The photographer had been staying at the country home of a wealthy romance writer, Lavinia Fitch, her sister, her sister's daughter, and a nephew who is also a famous radio commentator. The young photographer had ruffled the waves in the relatively harmonious household - all while being a perfectly polite and amiable guest. Does a motive lie there? Or in the photographer's American past?
Good plotting, well-written, a good read.
Inspector Grant is called in to investigate the disappearance of a young photographer, who walked out of a bar and was never seen again. Murder? Suicide? Kidnapping? Grant investigates, with a prime source being his sometime date, the actress Marta Holland. The photographer had been staying at the country home of a wealthy romance writer, Lavinia Fitch, her sister, her sister's daughter, and a nephew who is also a famous radio commentator. The young photographer had ruffled the waves in the relatively harmonious household - all while being a perfectly polite and amiable guest. Does a motive lie there? Or in the photographer's American past?
Good plotting, well-written, a good read.