Brat Farrar
by:
Josephine Tey (author)
A charming fraud In Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey presents on of the most attractive imposters in mystery fiction. Young Farrar, a product of an orphange, closely resembles the dead heir - presumably a suicide - to Latchetts, a British country estate. Mostly because of his great love of horses he...
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A charming fraud
In Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey presents on of the most attractive imposters in mystery fiction.
Young Farrar, a product of an orphange, closely resembles the dead heir - presumably a suicide - to Latchetts, a British country estate. Mostly because of his great love of horses he is persuaded to pose as Patrick Ashby, the heir, and claim the inheritance.
Only one Ashby suspects him, but his reasons are so special and strange that Farrar comes to believe something very evil happened to Patrick.
When an attempt is made on his life, Farrar knows Patrick was murdered and by whom - but to reveal it he would have to reveal his own fraud.
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1960-07
Publisher: Berkley Medallion
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Fiction,
Historical
‘Come and see me again before you decide anything,’ the Rector had said; but he had at least been helpful in one direction. He had answered Brat’s main question. If it was a choice between love and justice, the choice had to be justice. Brat Farrar (written in 1949) was not a perfect read. I have h...
Both Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair were on my 2017 Halloween Bingo long list, but so were many other books ... oh well. Both of these are stand-out books, in that (1) they're not, or not substantively, part of Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant series (in Franchise Affair Grant appears, but onl...
Both Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair were on my 2017 Halloween Bingo long list, but so were many other books ... oh well. Both of these are stand-out books, in that (1) they're not, or not substantively, part of Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant series (in Franchise Affair Grant appears, but onl...
This book has popped up on my radar screen several times - when I started it, I wasn't entirely sure where it might fit into Halloween bingo, but figured that I would be able to find someplace to slot it. After finishing, it fits into Amateur Sleuth, Murder Most Foul, Country House Mystery and Terri...
Sweet, but not too sweet.Several people too good to be true, one genuine villain, and not too much of a mystery. In fact, this is far more a novel than a mystery, which is typical of Josephine Tey. English country air, nice people, some startling coincidences and all's well that ends well. A nice ho...
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