by Josephine Tey
Hell was concentrated essence of a winter morning after a sleepless night of self-distaste. I’ve been meaning to write a review of The Singing Sands since I first read it but, as is the case with books I really like, I’ve just never really found a way to start. The things about The Singing Sands...
This is both the last of the Inspector Grant novels, and the last book published by Josephine Tey. It was published posthumously after her death of liver cancer - it was found in her papers as a completed novel. It probably wasn't the best idea to start with the last book written by Ms. Tey. I hav...
After reading Josephine Teys mysteries, I thought I'd post some of my thoughts about them.First the positives:They're free.They're well written in general.They're really good mysteries. The minor characters are mostly nice and interesting.To me, they're historic, though I know the author wrote and p...
Sadly Tey wrote only eight mysteries, and this is her last, published posthumously. I don't think it's among her best. I'd rate it perhaps sixth out of the eight, but it's still a great read, and stands out as a character study of her detective, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard. When he first ...
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...
comfort read
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...
I love Josephine Tey, and this is one of her best books! An interesting mystery and the characters, as always, stand out so sharply. (Feb 2008)-----One of Tey’s Inspector Grant books. As with most of them, this is almost as much about Grant as it is about the mystery. Includes Pat, who is always del...
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