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Человек из очереди. Шиллинг на свечи
Мужчину закололи в очереди за билетами в театр. При нем нет документов. Его никто не ищет. Даже этикетки с его совсем не дешевой одежды спороты тщательнейшим образом. Нет имени жертвы, нет и мотива для убийства. Дело автоматически попадает в разряд нераскрытых? Так считают все, кроме инспектора Гранта. Он верит: достаточно найти хоть мельчайшую зацепку — и нить от нее потянется к убийце…
Знаменитая актриса найдена убитой на пляже. Главный подозреваемый — юноша, которому она завещала все свое состояние. Молодой альфонс добился своего и избавился от стареющей любовницы — таково общее мнение. Но инспектор Скотленд-Ярда Алан Грант считает эту версию слишком очевидной. Он быстро выясняет: у жертвы было много врагов, причем и мотивы, и возможность убить ее были практически у каждого…
Знаменитая актриса найдена убитой на пляже. Главный подозреваемый — юноша, которому она завещала все свое состояние. Молодой альфонс добился своего и избавился от стареющей любовницы — таково общее мнение. Но инспектор Скотленд-Ярда Алан Грант считает эту версию слишком очевидной. Он быстро выясняет: у жертвы было много врагов, причем и мотивы, и возможность убить ее были практически у каждого…
480 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2023
About the author
Josephine Tey
146 books882 followersJosephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant.
The first of these, The Man in the Queue (1929) was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot , whose name also appears on the title page of another of her 1929 novels, Kif; An Unvarnished History. She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17th century cavalry leader John Graham, which was entitled Claverhouse (1937).
Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. The district of Daviot, near her home of Inverness in Scotland, was a location her family had vacationed. The name Gordon does not appear in either her family or her history.
Elizabeth Mackintosh came of age during World War I, attending Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England during the years 1915 - 1918. Upon graduation, she became a physical training instructor for eight years. In 1926, her mother died and she returned home to Inverness to care for her invalid father. Busy with household duties, she turned to writing as a diversion, and was successful in creating a second career.
Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of her novels, A Shilling for Candles (1936) as Young and Innocent in 1937 and two other of her novels have been made into films, The Franchise Affair (1948), filmed in 1950, and 'Brat Farrar' (1949), filmed as Paranoiac in 1963. In addition, a number of her works have been dramatised for radio.
Her novel The Daughter of Time (1951) was voted the greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.
Miss Mackintosh never married, and died at the age of 55, in London. A shy woman, she is reported to have been somewhat of a mystery even to her intimate friends. While her death seems to have been a surprise, there is some indication she may have known she was fatally ill for some time prior to her passing.
For more on Josephine Tey, see the fan site:
http://www.josephinetey.com/
The first of these, The Man in the Queue (1929) was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot , whose name also appears on the title page of another of her 1929 novels, Kif; An Unvarnished History. She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17th century cavalry leader John Graham, which was entitled Claverhouse (1937).
Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. The district of Daviot, near her home of Inverness in Scotland, was a location her family had vacationed. The name Gordon does not appear in either her family or her history.
Elizabeth Mackintosh came of age during World War I, attending Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England during the years 1915 - 1918. Upon graduation, she became a physical training instructor for eight years. In 1926, her mother died and she returned home to Inverness to care for her invalid father. Busy with household duties, she turned to writing as a diversion, and was successful in creating a second career.
Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of her novels, A Shilling for Candles (1936) as Young and Innocent in 1937 and two other of her novels have been made into films, The Franchise Affair (1948), filmed in 1950, and 'Brat Farrar' (1949), filmed as Paranoiac in 1963. In addition, a number of her works have been dramatised for radio.
Her novel The Daughter of Time (1951) was voted the greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.
Miss Mackintosh never married, and died at the age of 55, in London. A shy woman, she is reported to have been somewhat of a mystery even to her intimate friends. While her death seems to have been a surprise, there is some indication she may have known she was fatally ill for some time prior to her passing.
For more on Josephine Tey, see the fan site:
http://www.josephinetey.com/
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August 12, 2026
Меня Джозефина Тэй никогда не разочаровывает. Хотя первая вещь в книге была чуть менее интересной. Я потом посмотрела - это ее первая опубликованная книга. Может, мастерство еще не отшлифовала. 😊
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