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Loading... Miss Pym Disposesby Josephine Tey
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A pretty good introduction to this author, the murder took awhile in coming, but well-written good book. (  ) charlie68 | Oct 26, 2009 |  Tey writes beautifully. The portrait of the boarding school is priceless and all the characters are finely drawn. I didn't like this as much as Brat Farrar but it certainly had its own charms. ( ) ccayne | Oct 13, 2009 | Really liked the character analyses. I thought the final unmasking was a bit obvious, with the surprise twist being the misdirection to a different character earlier. Not a good example of the English countryhouse genre - for all the characters, there are very few serious suspects, but again, not to be read as a murder mystery, bur rather as character profiles with a murder in the background. I don't think I understood more than half of what was going on at the school. ( ) benfulton | Nov 2, 2008 | A meditation on hubris, perhaps self referential to the idea of an author playing god? Not perhaps her most likeable book but humanised by self doubt (must check where it comes in her canon). I do like the humanity of Miss Pym. ( )1  Figgles | Sep 14, 2008 | Well observed Tey, with the odd setting of a women's physical training college. A typical Teyian format, in that the crime does not surface until near the end, and most of the action consists in understanding characters and how they interact. (  )1 ben_a | Sep 7, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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