![]() ![]() ![]() I do love Inspector Grant, as he is not your usual “smarter-than-everyone” detective, but a real character who can be fooled, perplexed and led astray. Will her interference do more harm than good and with Tisdall’s prolonged disappearance, the police suspect that he has become a victim himself.Ī myriad of acting personages populate the scenes including an assertive and impertinent reporter who is ferreting out information, yet was too close to the victim a overly dramatic astrologist who had predicted the murder and more importantly, an unknown brother is discovered by a bequest in Clay’s will that reads, “a shilling for candles.” Suspects and clues lead Grant on an often confusing trail and one wonders where it will all lead, a perplexing conundrum until the end. ![]() Grant moves in, but when Tisdall escapes arrest, he has one cheerleader who believes in his innocence, the Chief Constable’s spunky and irrepressible teenage daughter, Erica Burgoyne. But is he really the murderer? His story of why he was in the vicinity of her death does not seem plausible, and a recent change by Clay to her will, leaving him part of her estate, gives Tisdall the most apparent motive. ![]() Unbeknownst to most of her friends, the actress had been hiding away at a cottage called The Briars where she had taken in and lodged a rather unassuming young man, Robert Tisdall, who was down on his luck and appears to be the actress’s killer. ![]()
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