An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

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An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey)

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The first murder occurs shortly after the train arrives, and odd but obvious clues lead to a connection with the play and with the author herself. For a start, Tey’s life is still very recent to start using her as a character in fiction, and people in her life and plays (like Gielgud, who made his name in “Richard of Bordeaux”) still seem very recently alive to me – not enough time has elapsed.

Upson clearly knows her way around pre-World War II London and the grimy backstages of Covent Garden, and delivers an ending shot through with palpable surprise and emotion. In a book teeming with literary pseudonyms and disguised identities, there are strong hints that Nicola Upson may make a name in crime fiction as the real thing.Archie Penrose, investigates and soon learns that the victim was adopted under irregular circumstances. I’ve thought about it a bit and come up with a number of reasons why I didn’t get on with this book (and I really did try – sat down and read one-third of it in one go to see if I hadn’t tried hard enough last time).

A sizeable crowd had gathered at the head of Platform Eight, obscuring his view of the train in which the girl’s body had been discovered less than an hour ago by a young railway employee. This was obviously a deliberate decision on Upson's part, because she explains the facts of the matter (I'd remembered them only dimly) in an Afterword.

I probably won’t actively seek out the other books in the series; I’ll pick them up if I come across them, but I’ll be fine if I don’t come across them.

Detective Inspector Archie Penrose, a friend of Tey's, takes on the case and soon fears that her safety may also be in jeopardy.

Upson doles out period detail, not in a surge of encyclopedic re-telling,but as a backdrop for the scenes as they play out, providing the clues needed to piece together the compulsion that drives someone to murder.



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