September 03, 2019 / in British Literature, Inspector Alan Grant Series, Josephine Tey, Thriller / with No comments /
Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer—whom no one saw.September 03, 2019 / in British Literature, Inspector Alan Grant Series, Josephine Tey, Thriller / with No comments /
When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant is on the case. But the inquiry into her death turns into a nightmare of false leads and baffling clues. Was there anyone who didn't want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead?September 03, 2019 / in British Literature, Inspector Alan Grant Series, Josephine Tey, Thriller / with No comments /
Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. 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. It appeared that she was in some serious trouble: Miss Sharpe and her mother were accused of brutally kidnapping a demure young woman named Betty Kane.September 03, 2019 / in British Literature, Inspector Alan Grant Series, Josephine Tey, Thriller / with No comments /
When a young strikingly handsome photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Grant to discover whether he accidentally drowned, committed suicide, or met his death at the hands of one of his many female admirers.September 03, 2019 / in British Literature, Inspector Alan Grant Series, Josephine Tey, Thriller / with No comments /
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower.September 03, 2019 / in British Literature, Inspector Alan Grant Series, Josephine Tey, Thriller / with No comments /
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about 'the stones that walk' and 'the singing sand, ' which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased.