However, Tey is a different matter and I found myself thinking she would actually hate this kind of attention.

The dining car was almost full when they arrived, but a waiter showed them to the last vacant table. Today, though, anonymity vanished even earlier than expected when a pleasant-looking young woman boarded the train at Berwick-upon-Tweed and slid back the door to Josephine’s carriage.Every time she journeyed south, she felt torn between the celebrity that awaited her in London and the ties which kept her in Inverness–and knew she was not truly comfortable with either. It’s going on tour, after all, and it’s lovely to think that people all over the country will see it. Nor is she particularly friendly or kind, except of course when she inexplicably became best chums with the future murder victim after a short train ride.

Twenty years after it started, the war had reinvented its suffering for a second generation in the form of inescapable confinement with the sick and wounded, and an eventual loss whose pain was the more sharply felt for its delay. Detective Inspector Archie Penrose, a friend of Tey's, takes on the case and soon fears that her safety may also be in jeopardy.My father died last year, and it’s all been so miserable for my mother and me, and sometimes your play got me through. An Expert in Murder (which is a quotation from Richard of Bordeaux) is billed as the first in a series of books featuring Josephine Tey and I'll be interested to see if Nicola Upson can maintain this fine start. In this fictionalized account, Tey befriends a young girl on a London-bound train who plans to meet her lover, a stagehand at the theater.