{"id":1441,"date":"2011-02-09T21:42:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2011-02-09T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:42:24","slug":"a-shilling-for-candles-by-josephine-tey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/a-shilling-for-candles-by-josephine-tey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josephine Tey, the pen name of Elizabeth Mackintosh, is a contemporary of Agatha Christie. I&#8217;ve been trying to request her books from the library, but it seems not many of her books are in print. The first time I requested a book by Tey, it arrived in Chinese! That was interesting.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Shilling for Candles<\/em> is a whodunnit type of mystery. I like the way it&#8217;s written, good character development, believable plot, and a satisfying ending. But I did guess who the killer was, without reading the ending first.<\/p>\n<p>Tey is not as good as Christie, but, hey, of course no one can match the Dame. The book was entertaining enough that I will request another of her books again, not in Chinese please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josephine Tey, the pen name of Elizabeth Mackintosh, is a contemporary of Agatha Christie. I&#8217;ve been trying to request her books from the library, but it seems not many of her books are in print. The first time I requested a book by Tey, it arrived in Chinese! That was interesting. A Shilling for Candles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}