Inspector Alan Grant Mystery Omnibus: The Man in the Queue, A Shilling for Candles, The Franchise Affair, To Love and Be Wise, The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands
About Inspector Alan Grant Mystery Omnibus: The Man in the Queue, A Shilling for Candles, The Franchise Affair, To Love and Be Wise, The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands
Josephine Tey’s Inspector Alan Grant six-novel crime series in one ebook.‘Inspector Alan Grant, my favourite detective of all time’ Daily ExpressINCLUDES:THE MAN IN THE QUEUE‘An enthralling cat-and-mouse hunt’ DAILY MAILThe long queue for the cheap seats at the Woffington Theatre shuffles forward. One man sinks slowly to his knees.
A fellow theatre-goer stoops to help, only to recoil in horror from what lay before him: the man in the queue had a small silver dagger neatly plunged into his back. Inspector Grant sets about discovering just how a murder occurred among so many witnesses, none of whom saw a thing. A SHILLING FOR CANDLES‘The characters – especially Grant – are superb’ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEOn a clear, sunny morning on the South Coast of England, a bit of bright cloth and some screaming gulls announced the location of a grisly deed.
A woman’s body lay limp on the beach. For Inspector Grant the case would become a nightmare of too many clues and too many motives. THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR‘The model mystery… impeccable in every respect’ ANTHONY BOUCHERCould The Franchise, a large country house deep in rural England, really be the scene of a brutal beating?
The prison of a kidnapped child? It’s up to Inspector Grant to test the validity of this puzzling case. TO LOVE AND BE WISE‘A first-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written’ LOS ANGELES TIMESLiterary sherry parties were not Alan Grant’s cup of tea.
But when Inspector Grant arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered?
THE DAUGHTER OF TIME‘One of the best mysteries of all time’ NEW YORK TIMESInspector Grant, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains? Grant determines to find out once and for all, what kind of man Richard really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
THE SINGING SANDS‘Really first class… a continual delight’ TLSEn route for the Outer Hebrides on sick leave, Inspector Grant literally stumbles upon the body of a young man in a train compartment. Grant firmly walks away from the corpse, determined to let nothing interfere with his holiday plans. The memory of the unknown dead man’s face drive Grant into investigating, even though the police are content to call it an accidental death.
ABOUT THE AUTHORJosephine Tey was the pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh, the Scottish author who rose to fame through her Inspector Alan Grant crime novels. Grant was a Detective Inspector in the CID at Scotland Yard, and one of the first fictional detectives to be a Scotland Yard Police Officer. Her first mystery novel, which also introduced Inspector Grant, The Man in the Queue, was published in 1929 and was awarded the Dutton Mystery Prize when published in America.
The Daughter of Time, the fifth Inspector Grant novel in the six book series, was named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association.