Miss Pym disposes
Josephine Tey's Miss Pym disposes (1946) is a sapphic fiction novel. The story is set in England. It deals with Hannah Pym, lesbians, women psychologists and women's colleges.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 32 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 42 editions.
At about 235 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.
About Miss Pym disposes
Even Miss Pym—lecturer at an English woman's college—agreed that final exam week was a rather grisly time at school, with ordinarily pretty girls poring red-eyed over heavy tomes, and rising at 5:00 A.M. but murder? Miss Pym was a warm-hearted, blithe little lady who read thirty-seven books on psychology, disagreed with them all, and wrote pages and pages of rebuttal. To her amazement, she became a "best-seller." Then Leys College, where she was a guest lecturer, became the scene of a peculiar and fatal "accident," which Miss Pym suspected was a planned crime. Putting her psychological theories into practice, Miss Pym turned up some surprising conclusions...
Quick answers
Who wrote Miss Pym disposes?
Miss Pym disposes was written by Josephine Tey and first published in 1946.
What genre is Miss Pym disposes?
It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction.
How long is Miss Pym disposes?
The median edition has 235 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Miss Pym disposes?
Readers who like it often enjoy Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Tipping the Velvet and Written on the Body.
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