Anne Morice (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
The Tessa Crichton Price series, 1970-.
Principal Series Characters
Tessa Crichton Price, an amateur sleuth and actress, is the wife of Scotland Yard Detective Robin Price. Although her age and appearance remain undefined, various clues suggest that Tessa is youthful and attractive. Seldom performing in a long-running play, she travels in England, visiting friends and relatives who require her detective expertise. A talkative narrator, she displays exuberance, curiosity, and perceptiveness, and she enjoys discussing solutions to the murderous...
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