# A Shilling For Candles

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- Book: [A Shilling For Candles](https://www.bookquiver.com/josephine-tey/a-shilling-for-candles) ([A Shilling For Candles.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/josephine-tey/a-shilling-for-candles.md))
- Authors: [Josephine Tey](https://www.bookquiver.com/josephine-tey)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-668-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2011-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...