A Shilling for Candles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Shilling for Candles write by Josephine Tey. This book was released on 2022-12-23. A Shilling for Candles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The body of a woman, Christine Clay (née Christina Gotobed) is discovered at the edge of the surf on a beach in Kent... A Shilling for Candles is a 1936 mystery novel by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) about the investigation of the drowning of a film actress, known as Christine Clay. It is the second of Tey's five mysteries starring Inspector Alan Grant. The plot draws extensively on Tey's experience in working with actors in her play Richard of Bordeaux.
The Singing Sands
The Singing Sands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Singing Sands write by Josephine Tey. This book was released on 2023-01-01. The Singing Sands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor’s orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder.
Four, Five, and Six by Tey
Four, Five, and Six by Tey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four, Five, and Six by Tey write by Josephine Tey. This book was released on 1958. Four, Five, and Six by Tey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Brat Farrar
Brat Farrar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brat Farrar write by Josephine Tey. This book was released on 2012-12-25. Brat Farrar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor’s life hanging in the balance. In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposter's plan and his life. Culminating in a final terrible moment when all is revealed, Brat Farrar is a precarious adventure that grips the reader early and firmly and then holds on until the explosive conclusion.
To Love and Be Wise
To Love and Be Wise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Love and Be Wise write by Josephine Tey. This book was released on 2023-01-01. To Love and Be Wise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A witty and sophisticated mystery featuring bestselling author Josephine Tey's popular Inspector Alan Grant, a beloved character created by a woman considered to be one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible case of suicide or had the photographer simply vanished for reasons of his own?
