Tey (Josephine, pseud. Elizabeth Mackintosh) The Franchise Affair.
£75
Introduction by Antonia Fraser
London, The Folio Society, 2001.
Folio Society edition. Large 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Plain blue slipcase.
Tey’s third Inspector Alan Grant novel, inspired by the real 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning. The novel was adapted for film in 1951, directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray, and was named one of the Crime Writers’ Association’s Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.
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A fine copy.
Illustrations by Paul Hogarth.
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