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A Shilling for Candles
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A Shilling for Candles is a mystery novel by Josephine Tey, first published in 1936. It is her second mystery novel, and the second to feature Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard.Christine Clay, a famous actress, is found dead on a beach in Kent, where she was on holiday. Suspicion fixes on Robert Tisdall, a destitute young man she had met on her way to Kent and impulsively invited to join her. Tisdall goes on the run, and receives unexpected assistance from Erica Burgoyne, the daughter of the local chief constable. Inspector Grant's investigations produce several other suspects, including a songwriter rumored to be Christine's lover, who was in Kent on the morning in question and is known to have lied about his movements, and Christine's brother, with whom she had a bad history and whom she cut off in her will with nothing but "a shilling for candles".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The novel inspired the 1937 Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent, which minimizes the mystery aspect and focuses on Robert Tisdall and Erica Burgoyne as they try to clear Robert's name. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Inspector Grant solves the murder after idly picking up and flicking through a gossip magazine with Christine on the front cover, finding the detail that brings everything together in one of the articles that isn't about Christine. He immediately rushes off to close the case, leaving the owner of the magazine bemused. | |
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Bad Habits: One of the characters is a con man who first appears dressed as a monk. (It turns out that he is genuinely, though not sincerely, a member of a small religious order, which he joined with the intention of sweet-talking his way into a position of authority from which he could embezzle its assets.) | |
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