Josephine Tey 
To Love and Be Wise 

 »The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world » VAL MCDERMID
 »The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn »t aged a day » JOSEPH KNOX
When Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit?
 »Will leave you desperate to re-read » SARAH HILARY
 »Worth reading for its ingenious denouement » TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT