To Love and Be Wise

To Love and Be Wise is a 1950 mystery detective novel by the British writer Josephine Tey. It was the fourth of six novels featuring Detective Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.^[1][2][3]

To Love and Be Wise

1951 American edition
Author	Josephine Tey
Language	English
Series	Inspector Grant
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Peter Davies Macmillan (US)
Publication date	1950
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	The Franchise Affair
Followed by	The Daughter of Time

Synopsis

At a theatrical party in London Grant briefly encounters a young American, whose connections as a famous photographer grant him an invitation to stay at the home of a well-known writer in an English village that has become fashionable among the artistic set. A few days later Grant is called in when the American has disappeared, mostly likely into the river. What at first seems a routine case of accident, or at worst murder, becomes for the detective a more complex investigation of identity as he begins to ponder whether any accident or crime has taken place at all.