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Bookmark or Share- “What was justice?”: Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes“What was justice” in this case? wonders Miss Pym. “Do the obvious right thing, Miss Pym,” advises another character blithely, “and let God dispose.” But it’s Miss Pym who disposes– and it’s only by thinking through the whole story, and thinking about all the people involved in it, that we can decide if she makes the right ...
- Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey - Goodreads8,801 ratings705 reviews. To Miss Lucy Pym, expert psychologist, the atmosphere at Leys College for young women where she is a guest lecturer is heavy with tension. Beneath the so normal surface run sinister undercurrents of rivalry and jealousy.
- Miss Pym Disposes (1946) - Five Books Expert ReviewsMiss Pym Disposes is a standalone novel by Josephine Tey. It’s set in a physical training college for girls in the English countryside. Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) herself attended a physical training college in Birmingham and started her career as a gym teacher (later stopping to look after her father and write full-time), suggesting the book ...
- Miss Pym Disposes - Josephine Tey - Google BooksHer 1946 novel 'Miss Pym Disposes' weaves elements of psychological insight with the classic structure of a whodunit, signaling Tey's narrative adeptness and mastery...
- Josephine Tey’s Miss Pym Disposes – Kate MacdonaldMiss Pym Disposes (1946) has a psychologist as the focalising protagonist, so much better as a leading character than a boring policeman, because she relies completely on gut instinct, human psychology and observation to make her deductions. Miss Marple did that too, of course, but Agatha Christie is nowhere near as good a writer as Josephine Tey.
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