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Josephine Tey
A Shilling For Candles
Book #2 of the Inspector Alan Grant series
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A Shilling For Candles

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning.

Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive – just like murder…

Author: Josephine Tey
Published: 1936
Page Count: 200

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