Anne Morice
by Felicity Wolthington
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- Author: Felicity Wolthington
- Characters: Tessa Crichton Price, Toby Crichton
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Anne Morice’s twenty-one novels featuring amateur sleuth Tessa Crichton Price, the loquacious narrator, have been described as offering “sneaky endings, civilized middles and comfortable beginnings, which tell you in a page or two that you’re in the company of a classic detective-story writer.” Following in the tradition of Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh, Morice placed her characters in confined settings and examined the reality of psychological turmoil hovering beneath a facade of social harmony. Misled by skillfully placed red herrings, the reader can...
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