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A Shilling for Candles

Inspector Alan Grant, Book 2

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A Shilling for Candles

By: Josephine Tey
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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The second book in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

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, even though the area is notorious for such incidents.

However, it soon becomes clear that darker motives were afoot, and potential suspects in the death of Christine Clay stack up at a rapid pace. As the case grows murkier, the man who spent the last week of Clay’s life living with her in a remote cottage goes on the run, and Inspector Alan Grant must race to uncover the truth.

A Shilling for Candles was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent.

Public Domain (P)2023 SNR Audio Classics Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime

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I have enjoyed this book for many years listening to it read by Stephen Thorne. This narration is a bit of a disappointment, it doesn’t give the characters the depth that the Stephen Thorn version did. At times the story was told almost in a monotone as if the narrator was getting bored. Then it lifted for a chapter or two and there was some feeling in it. It has nothing to do with the gender of the narrator, Carole Boyd did a wonderful job with Brat Farrah and the Franchise Affair. It’s all a question of style and a feel for the author’s work.

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