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Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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A unique and absorbing standalone mystery, Miss Pym Disposes is an essential addition to the Josephine Tey collection.

Bestselling author Lucy Pym is initially thrilled to be invited to lecture at Leys Physical Training College. The girls are eager to learn about psychology, her pet subject, and she finds herself inspired by their discipline, humour and determination.

However, a tragic accident in the gymnasium reveals a darker side to the school, and unexpectedly Miss Pym finds she must draw on her psychological expertise to trace who, of all these wholesome girls, has violence on the mind.

Public Domain (P)2023 SNR Audio Crime Fiction Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Royalty Fiction Adventure Transportation Short Story Wolf

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Critic reviews

‘[The] most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age' Val McDermid
All stars
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Thoroughly enjoyed this, rather a fan of Ms. Try but hadn’t read this one. Thought the narration was very good. All in all a great listen!

Wonderful tale and excellent narration

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Ms Tey (and her excellent reader) had me enthralled from page 1. She captured life in an all girls physiotherapist school cut off from the world fantastically. Everything was internally focused apart from tea in a nearby cafe. Just as Ms Pym did not want to leave, so did I not want to finish the story.
It is the different characters so well painted and their behaviours which make the story. The reader differentiates them splendidly and adds so much ambience.
Five out of five.

What a star Josephine Tey must have been

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Josephine Tey wrote wonderful detective novels, with a clear eyed understanding of human nature that nevertheless less keep you guessing till end. A gentle and satisfying pace.

Interesting read

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The narrator did a very good job of portraying all the different characters . There was a good deal of humour, and some memorable, witty writing by the author, brought alive by the narrator.

A satisfying listen

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The story, like all of Josephine Tey's, is excellent, head and shoulders above almost all the other Golden Age writers. Intelligent, beautifully written, and proof that genre fiction can enter the realms of 'serious' literature.

The narrator, on the other hand, was disappointing. Too modern-sounding in her delivery, with a strange mode of speech that gives every word almost equal weight, producing a robotic effect. And with the trying verbal tic of overemphasising the 'ee' sound at the ends of words: loyaltEE, deliverEE ... Rather like Brian Redhead's speech patterns, for anybody who may remember him. Over an entire novel this can become very irritating. A few mispronunciations too (reveille, for example), but almost every reader has a few of those.

I would have liked to listen to all the Josephine Tey novels, but am too much put off by the reader. If only the brilliant Hugh Fraser or Stephanie Cole could have read them.

Splendid novel, but not so splendidly read

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