the_lirazel reviewed Miss Pym disposes by Josephine Tey
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5 stars
THAT ENDING THOUGH. The thing is, I saw it coming, and it still took my breath away. What a writer.
Josephine Tey: Miss Pym (Italian language, 1987, La Tartaruga nera)
216 pages
Italian language
Published Nov. 30, 1987 by La Tartaruga nera.
Even Miss Pym—lecturer at an English woman's college—agreed that final exam week was a rather grisly time at school, with ordinarily pretty girls poring red-eyed over heavy tomes, and rising at 5:00 A.M. but murder? Miss Pym was a warm-hearted, blithe little lady who read thirty-seven books on psychology, disagreed with them all, and wrote pages and pages of rebuttal. To her amazement, she became a "best-seller." Then Leys College, where she was a guest lecturer, became the scene of a peculiar and fatal "accident," which Miss Pym suspected was a planned crime. Putting her psychological theories into practice, Miss Pym turned up some surprising conclusions...
THAT ENDING THOUGH. The thing is, I saw it coming, and it still took my breath away. What a writer.