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In 1939 Hollywood, Josephine Tey, when a shocking act of violence on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca reawakens the shadows of the past, teams up with DCI Archie Penrose and together, they follow a trail of clues that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.

Main Author: Upson, Nicola (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Crooked Lane, 2023.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Josephine Tey mystery ; 11.
Subjects:
Tey, Josephine, > 1896 or 1897-1952 > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Motion pictures > Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary: In 1939 Hollywood, Josephine Tey, when a shocking act of violence on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca reawakens the shadows of the past, teams up with DCI Archie Penrose and together, they follow a trail of clues that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.
Physical Description: 327 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781639102662
1639102663
Author Notes: Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels to feature Josephine Tey--one of the leading authors of Britain's age of crime-writing. Her research for the books has included many conversations with people who lived through the period and who knew Josephine Tey well, most notably Sir John Gielgud. The book was dramatised by BBC Scotland for Woman's Hour, and praised by PD James as marking "the arrival of a new and assured talent". Nicola lives with her partner in Cambridge and Cornwall.

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