A Shilling for Candles (Annotated)

A Shilling for Candles (1936) is a deft Golden Age detective novel in which Inspector Alan Grant investigates the apparent drowning of film star Christine Clay, whose death on a lonely beach soon reveals currents of celebrity, secrecy, and social performance. Tey's prose is lucid, ironic, and observant, less dependent on mechanical puzzle-making than on character, atmosphere, and the unstable mean...