A Shilling for Candles
by Josephine Tey
1936
ISBN/ASIN: B0051UT87A
Number of pages: 258
Description:
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...
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