![]() What a sadness it is that she died so young. This is my fourth Tey – I’ve already read Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair & The Singing Sands. ![]() And not because it wasn’t good, because it was good. ![]() I’ve been really busy, so this slender book took me a much longer time to read than I expected. By the end, though, I was reminded of two entirely different Christie mysteries. When I started Miss Pym Disposes, I was thinking about The Cat Among the Pigeons. Putting her psychological theories into practice, Miss Pym turned up some surprising conclusions… 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. To her amazement, she became a “best-seller”. ![]() Miss Pym was a warm-hearted, blithe little lady who had read thirty-seven books on psychology, disagreed with them all, and written pages and pages of rebuttal. Even Miss Pym-lecturer at an English women’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. ![]()
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