The investigation gives Tey great opportunity to describe an improbable gathering of teenaged physical education students: the independent and attractive Head Girl, "Beau" Nash her pleasant, intelligent, competent friend, Mary Innes and the fiery Latin American exchange student, far more sexually mature than her peers, who wants only to dance. At a girls' physical education college, which is described with fascinating details of programs of study, sport activities, and employment inquiries, Miss Pym undertakes the discovery of the murderer of an unpleasant student. In Miss Pym Disposes a former French teacher who has casually and flippantly written a popular psychology book begins to believe in her ability to understand the human psyche. Tey's amateur detectives are each different from the other. Tey wrote several non-series examples of detection and mystery in addition to her creation of the gentleman-police officer Alan Grant, whose shoes never revealed his status as CID investigator. Her style is pure, her plots and characters carefully wrought, and her adherence to the classical traditions dependable. While her work differs from theirs in several respects, it undoubtedly belongs to the Golden Age of detective fiction. Josephine Tey's novels of mystery and detection are often categorized with those of Dorothy L.
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