The Josephine Tey Collection: 6 Alan Grant Novels; Brat Farrar; & Miss Pym Disposes

Written by Josephine Tey

Narrated by Karen Cass

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

The novels included here are:

The Man in the Queue - Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theatre and for the identity of the killer—whom no-one saw.

A Shilling for Candles - Even a hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning, even though the area is notorious for such incidents.

The Franchise Affair - A town full of colourful characters and an impossible disappearance, all threaded through with Tey’s signature psychological probing.

To Love and Be Wise - As well as all the usual delights of Tey’s writing and Inspector Grant himself, To Love and Be Wise also features one of the most cunning and surprising twists of any of Tey’s novels.

The Daughter of Time - Still Tey’s most enduringly popular mystery. Can a bed-ridden 20th-century detective solve a 500-year-old crime?

The Singing Sands - Centres on the mysterious death of a young man on a train, and the cryptic poem that gradually reveals the greed and envy behind his demise.

Miss Pym Disposes - A tragic accident in the gymnasium reveals a darker side to Miss Pym's school, and unexpectedly she finds she must draw on her psychological expertise to trace who, of all these wholesome girls, has violence on the mind.

Brat Farrar - A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger has memorised every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SNR Audio
• Release date: Apr 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781915268846

Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey, author of The Daughter of Time and The Franchise Affair, was born Elizabeth MacKintosh in Inverness in Scotland in 1896. She trained and worked as a teacher before returning to her family home to look after her elderly parents. It was there that she took up writing. Although she described her crime writing, written under the pen name Josephine Tey, as ‘my weekly knitting’ she was and is recognized as a major writer of the Golden Age of Crime writing. She was also successful as a novelist and playwright, writing under the name of Gordon Daviot. Her plays were performed in London and on Broadway. A fiercely private woman, she died at her sister’s home in 1952.

Reviews for The Josephine Tey Collection

[liutianxue · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

can anyone tell me at which chapter the daughter of time starts???

[clairemays · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thank you Josephine for so many hours of beauty and delight. Thank you Karen for coming up to the task.