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EuSei
Sep 11, 2015EuSei rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Another very well written story by Josephine Tey. Miss Lucy Pym is a most unusual sleuth. She is soft and feminine and round and pink! Pym, an ex-French instructor, inherited a little bit of money and retired to a life of leisure. She read a “book on psychology out of curiosity”; then “she read all the rest to see if they were just as silly.” (Smart girl!) “In fact, the thirty-seven volumes seemed to her so idiotic and made her so angry that she sat down there and then and wrote reams of refutal.” And so, she became a best-seller author. Just don’t expect a crime committed at the beginning and be patient. The story slowly unwinds when Miss Pym is invited by by her old school friend, Henrietta Hodge, to be guest lecturer at Lays, a girls’ physical training college. There is a lot of daily routine explained—bells ringing at 5:30 am, and, horror of horrors: the “healthy” food served at meals—but Miss Pym stays and much longer than she had originally planned. Then an accident happens… And that is when she discovers that: “As a psychologist she was a first-rate teacher of French”! Highly satisfying, worth reading book.