![]() ![]() A Shilling for Candles and Brat Farrar are set in the same part of Kent, and share some family names if not individual characters. Character Overlap: The lawyer Kevin Macdermott appears in both The Franchise Affair and Brat Farrar The Franchise Affair also has Inspector Grant in a supporting role.Blitz Evacuees: Betty Kane in The Franchise Affair.Beauty Equals Goodness: An overarching trope found in all her works, and based on her own strong belief in the truth of physiognomy.Other works by Josephine Tey provide examples of: Works by Josephine Tey with their own trope pages include: Probably her most widely known novel is The Daughter of Time, in which Inspector Grant, stuck in hospital with a broken leg, fends off boredom by re-investigating the historical case of the Princes in the Tower, concluding that Richard III wasn't the one who done it. ![]() A Shilling For Candles was adapted (very loosely) as the Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent. Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television. Five feature Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, the rest a variety of Amateur Sleuths. Josephine Tey (real name Elizabeth MacKintosh, 25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952) was a Scottish writer of mystery novels. ![]()
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