Miss Pym Disposes (1946)

by Josephine Tey

Miss Pym Disposes is a standalone novel by Josephine Tey. It’s set in a physical training college for girls in the English countryside. Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) herself attended a physical training college in Birmingham and started her career as a gym teacher (later stopping to look after her father and write full-time), suggesting the book’s descriptions of the students and their daily activities might be quite authentic. As so often with Tey, it’s not a straightforward whodunnit.