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The Singing Sands

Josephine Tey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:3rd Feb '11

Should be back in stock very soon

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A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction.

On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead.

On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure - but Grant is not so sure. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper, he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides.

And though it is the end of his holiday, it is also the beginning of an intriguing investigation into the bizarre circumstances shrouding Charles Martin's death...

Has all the Tey magic and delight. * San Francisco Chronicle *
Beautifully written and insistently readable. * New York Times *
Josephine Tey has always been absoluteely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings * Spectator *
Really first class... a continual delight * Times Literary Supplement *

ISBN: 9780099556732

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm

Weight: 181g

256 pages