Binding: Paperback
Description: Nicola Upson blends biography and fiction excitement and menace and a touch of Alfred Hitchcock in Fear in the Sunlight a mystery starring real - life writer Josephine Tey. Summer 1936: Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel A Shilling for Candles and Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained and expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of Hollywood's leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothing and no one is quite what it seems. Based in part on the life of Josephine Tey one of the most popular best - loved crime writers of the Golden Age Nicola Upson's Fear in the Sunlight features legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock as a prominent character and features the classic suspense and psychological tension that fans of Hitchcock films love.
Title: Fear In The Sunlight
Author(s): Upson Nicola
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062195432
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/9/2013
Series: Josephine Tey Mysteries