by Josephine Tey, Margaret Tarner · Delta Systems Co Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435272333
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«The Franchise Affair» is the intermediate-level reader by Josephine Tey, adapted by Margaret Tarner, in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Marion Sharpe and her mother lead a peaceful life in their country house, The Franchise, until fifteen-year-old Betty Kane accuses them of kidnapping and holding her there. Lawyer Robert Blair takes on their defense and tries to prove the accusation false, facing the town's prejudices and the case's contradictions.
It is part of the Heinemann Guided Readers series of graded readers in English; 1992 edition by Delta Systems Co Inc.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language, with an intermediate reading level (about 1600 basic words).
Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929). Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, from the same series, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run.
