Domestic Noir and the Fille Fatale in The Franchise Affair. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. On the phone was Marion Sharpe of The Franchise who pleaded with him to come help, she was, This book is in a genre unto itself: nationalist mystery or maybe, conservative mystery, or imperialist mystery. If there is a The Franchise Affair SparkNotes, Shmoop guide, or Cliff Notes, you can find a link to each study guide below. by Scribner. Betty Kane is greedy and “oversexed” and therefore evil; furthermore, she’s evil because her mother before her was evil – she was a loose woman who’d go out and dance with officers during the war. I've been wanting to read this Tey title for a very long time &, other than the reader sees very little of Inspector Grant, it did not disappoint. $2.99. The Franchise Affair also has a historical context: although set in the 1940s, it is based on the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning. Review this product. $15.50. However - it's not good; rather, it is incredibly dated and, worse, terribly lazily written (e.g., "her intelligent eyes") and plotted. "It isn't like a mystery at all," one of them said in surprise. THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR (JOSEPHINE TEY - 1951) WITH MICHAEL DENISON 2/2 (final) ashbyjay. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The franchise affair This edition was published in 1949 by Macmillan Co. in New York. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Yet Marion Sharpe claimed the Kane girl had never been there, let alone been held captive for an entire month! And this saves the book from being uncomfortable to read, and instead makes it very tense and interesting: how do you prove a negative? Classifications Library of Congress PZ3.M2174 Fr2, PR6025.A2547 Fr2 The Physical Object Pagination 238 p. Number of pages 238 ID Numbers Open Library OL6047893M Internet Archive franchiseaffair00teyj LC Control Number 49007347 Yowza! Publication date 1995 Topics Large type books Publisher Chivers Press Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English. You Save 9%. Coming from a country that was a British colony and from a century that recognises anti-imperialism for the inevitable evolution it was, I surely was not the group this book panders to. Betty Kane is, we're assured, rotten to the core, a completely nasty piece of work. The Franchise Affair Lawrence Huntington (1950) 84min. And pander it does, with a heavy, propoganda-laced hand. two women who live there keep themselves to themselves. 4.6 out of 5 stars. Then one evening, waiting for a bus, the Sharpe women approached her in their car and offered her a lift. But it was interesting because both the accuser and the accused are women, and so sexism doesn't come into it, at least not in the usual way. Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. A dusty relic on the library shelf! The Franchise Affair was first published in 1948, and it was a famous book in the 1950s, when I was growing up. After a week, she wrote to her adoptive parents, the Wynns, to say she was enjoying herself and would spend another three weeks with the Tilsits. Betty Kane is, we're assured, rotten to the core, a completely nasty piece of work. People who are good and decent recognize Betty Kane as a poisonous liar (because of the color and/or spacing of her eyes), people who are stupid and vacuous think she's a harmless little dear. 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