
Miss Pym Disposes
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Karen Cass
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Josephine Tey
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.
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If you're new to Josephine Tey ... you're in for a treat! I don't think she's officially considered part of the Golden Age mystery author pantheon, but her novels have a similar flair. They're witty, they're British, the characters are compelling, and the stories are transporting. Previously my favorites were Brat Farrar and Daughter of Time, but Miss Pym has now firmly claimed the number one spot in my heart.
To me, the thing that makes Josephine Tey really special and makes her work stand out from Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie (both of whom I also enjoy very much!) is the humor and the freshness. Sayers is witty, but in an urbane, I-am-a-very-well-educated-British-person-of-a-bygone-era kind of way, while Tey is funny in a way that feels much more modern. Like some enterprising plagiarist could lift big sections from her novels, plop them into a contemporary novel or screenplay, and start scooping up the accolades. And this doesn't just apply to Tey's humor. Her novels -- all the ones I've read to some degree, but Miss Pym Disposes especially -- feel of-the-moment in a way you just don't expect for books written over 50 years ago. (That said, I'm still not certain what the modern-day equivalent of a physical training college is. Or if there even is a modern-day equivalent.)
I'm sure plenty of folks have summarized Miss Pym's plot better than I could, but I do think it's worth noting that the murder occurs far later in the story than you'd expect. On my first read, I remember being 200 pages in and thinking, "When the heck is this murder going to happen?! How can our Miss Pym get to work solving a murder when there's no murder in sight?" It's unusual pacing for a murder mystery, but it works: it slowly rachets up the tension of what is primarily a story about the personalities and politics of a mid-century women's college because you spend most of the book trying to figure out who's going to be offed. And why. And how. When the expected genre conventions eventually make their appearance, you're rewarded first with what seems to be a very satisfying ending and then with a big twist at the very end. So good. Tey is a master. She deserves a much, much bigger place in the mystery canon.
A stellar story with a fantastic narrator
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And such a brilliant narrator. Can’t tell you how happy this listen made me. Do get this. Enjoy!
Listened in one long session! SO fun!
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A gripping story written with artfully dry wit
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The characters’ vivid descriptions
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A true favorite for anyone who enjoys a character-focused murder mystery.
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Not to mention promoting the belief that it’s the moral choice to let a murder (that caused a long & agonizing death, & which brought reproach to the famililess victim) be gotten away with
Last couple hours took a vile turn
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