When Inspector Alan Grant finds himself battling claustrophobia and panic attacks as a result of overwork, he takes himself on a fishing holiday to Scotland.At the end of his overnight train-ride he stumbles on the body of a young man who has died during the night. Because he is on his holidays he d...
Read by.................. Stephen ThorneAbr/Unabr.............. UnabridgedGenre................... Fiction - MysterySource................... 6 Cassette TapesTotal Runtime......... 6 Hours 46 Minsblurb - It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go down on their knees for the privilege ...
mp3 - Quite a (messy) over ambitious plot line that meant either complete adherence or suffer the consequences. Not worth more than the solid three but I will say, Tey had the gift, although it is not so obvious in this tale. I will look for more.---------------------Read by.................. Steph...
The fourth of the Alan Grant books (if you count the Franchise Affair, which admittedly is only tangentially an Alan Grant book), this is the first one to finish with the case actually being -solved- rather than ending with a deus ex machina with the solution falling in their laps (or the guilty giv...
Whilst better than the first Grant novel, if only for the fact it is solved -by- Grant rather than by a deus ex machina, this is still merely an interesting mystery, falling far short of a great, or even good, one. The parts of this novel that shine are the characters which are themselves richly dr...
Very, very good. Beautifully portrayed how good and evil and profound moral choices don't come wearing black and white hats and standing under a thunderous sky, they sneak in amidst the ordinary tenor of days. Like a kaleidescope sliding into place you suddenly realize, oh wait, that dull little ...
Blurb - The last novel by a great writer who died too early, takes Inspector Grant on a rest cure to the remote Scottish islands on the west coast of Scotland.Few people got out of tipping the sour-faced attendant on the London to Scotland railway line, but the man in compartment B7 did. But Inspect...
One of my favorite Tey books, of which there are many. (March 2008)-----Another Inspector Grant mystery, this one far less memorable than the others, in my opinion. Tey’s crankiness on certain subjects definitely comes out, and the story isn’t remarkable either for the mystery, or for Grant’s intros...
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