Miss Pym Disposes

Paperback, 256 pages

Published May 7, 1992 by Mandarin.

ISBN:
978-0-7493-1062-2
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OCLC Number:
27011869

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Even Miss Pym—lecturer at an English woman's college—agreed that final exam week was a rather grisly time at school, with ordinarily pretty girls poring red-eyed over heavy tomes, and rising at 5:00 A.M. but murder? Miss Pym was a warm-hearted, blithe little lady who read thirty-seven books on psychology, disagreed with them all, and wrote pages and pages of rebuttal. To her amazement, she became a "best-seller." Then Leys College, where she was a guest lecturer, became the scene of a peculiar and fatal "accident," which Miss Pym suspected was a planned crime. Putting her psychological theories into practice, Miss Pym turned up some surprising conclusions...

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This was well-written but I grew to detest the characters of most women in the book for their smugness, prejudice, and snobbishness. The moral querulousness of the protagonist was key but also her major failing. Miss Pym Disposes is not a taut, suspenseful read. I'm glad I pushed on to complete it, but I wonder if there were a better introduction to Josephine Tey, one I'd enjoy.

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Subjects

  • Crime & mystery