Author: Nicola Upson
Year: 2012
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Mystery, Historical fiction
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9780571246281
9780062195432
0571246281
0062195433 |
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Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, A Shilling for Candles, and Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained - and expose their deepest fears.
But things get out of hand when one of Hollywood's leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day, as fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothing - and no one - is quite what it seems, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the way the investigation is ultimately resolved. Several years later, another horrific murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives Penrose back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the shocking truth.
This book is part of the "Josephine Tey" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "London Rain"
First published in 2015
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 | "Two for Sorrow"
First published in 2010
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 | "Angel with Two Faces"
First published in 2009
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 | "Nine Lessons"
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