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Informationen zum Autor Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her debut, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels to feature Josephine Tey - one of Britain's finest Golden Age crime writers - and was dramatised for BBC Radio 4. Several of Nicola's novels have been listed for the CWA Gold and Historical Daggers, and Sorry for the Dead was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. She is a member of the Detection Club, and in 2024 curated the acclaimed exhibition Murder by the Book: a celebration of twentieth century British crime fiction at Cambridge University Library. She is also the author of Stanley and Elsie , a novel about the painter Stanley Spencer, and lives with her partner in Cambridge and Cornwall. Klappentext May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate the murder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters.The latest instalment of the much-loved series starring Josephine Tey from Nicola Upson Zusammenfassung May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate the murder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters.

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'Nicola Upson's novels featuring the Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey are always a delight.' The Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Upson, Upson Nicola
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9780571287765
• ISBN: 978-0-571-28776-5
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Josephine Tey; Josephine Tey; Josephine Tey Series; Josephine Tey und Archie Penrose ermitteln
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Crime, Classic crime, Modern & contemporary fiction, Crime & mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary