Josephine Tey

Publishers were falling over themselves, therefore, in their effort to supply this strange new thirst for knowledge, and Miss Pym found herself welcomed with open arms.

This alone was a piece of luck, but Providence so ordained it that not only had the British public tired of fiction, but the intellectuals had tired of Freud and Company.

They were longing for Some New Thing. And Lucy proved to be it.

the fourth form had discovered her christened name to be Laetitia;

Fröken Gustavsen's mother from Sweden

Crusoe welcoming a landing party

She was still at heart the little rabbit who didn't expect Henrietta to bother about her.

Miss Nash explained with clarity, point, and no small bitterness that the last three lecturers had been: an octogenarian on Assyrian inscriptions, a Czech on Central Europe, and a bonesetter on scoliosis.

Miss Nash explained with clarity, point, and no small bitterness that the last three lecturers had been: an octogenarian on Assyrian inscriptions, a Czech on Central Europe, and a bonesetter on scoliosis.

down in her path and wept aloud.