Book description
Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent
discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited
to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the
health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate.
Then there was a nasty accident - and suddenly Miss Pym was forced
to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all
those impressively healthy bodies someone had a very sick mind...
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime
writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication
of her first novel,
The Man in the Queue
(1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she
returned to crime writing with
A Shilling for Candles
, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of
her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her
entire estate to the National Trust.
