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6 de jul. de 2023 · For fans of true crime and of classic crime fiction, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey is a gripping thriller featuring detective Alan Grant and a masterful exposé of the powerful connections between media, the establishment and what people choose to believe.Based on a true story. Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,...
10 de oct. de 2023 · For fans of true crime and of classic crime fiction, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey is a gripping thriller featuring detective Alan Grant and a masterful exposé of the powerful connections between media, the establishment and what people choose to believe. Based on a true story.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound ...
Josephine Tey based The Franchise Affair, with its unusual central mystery involving captivity and abuse, on a real case from the 1700s.Elizabeth Canning was a maidservant who went missing in 1753, only to turn up a month later, emaciated and beaten. She told an extraordinary story of being held prisoner in a loft by a group of ne’er-do-wells who wanted to force her into prostitution.
13 de jul. de 2023 · The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey was the chosen book for our first read of 2023, taking place on 9 January. We meet online. Read more. J - loves books, reads books. 4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed reading this Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2023 ...
The Franchise Affair is a British television series which originally aired on BBC One in 1988. It is based on the 1948 novel The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey. Main cast. Patrick Malahide as Robert Blair; Joanna McCallum as Marion Sharpe; Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Sharpe;
The Franchise Affair is a classic mystery about a woman and her elderly mother, who live at The Franchise, a rural house, being accused of kidnapping and beating a teenaged girl, Betty Kane, who claimed the pair held her in an attic room to force her to work as their maid.
The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey. Recommendations from our site “This book is just so well crafted. Everything seems to be building up against the two women, that it looks as if they really did kidnap this girl, and keep her locked in the attic – and how on earth are they going to get out of it?
