The Singing Sands

The Singing Sands

by JosephineTey (Author)

Synopsis

On his train journey 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 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...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Published: 05 Sep 2002

ISBN 10: 0099429675
ISBN 13: 9780099429678
Book Overview: A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction 20020218

Media Reviews
Josephine Tey has always been absoluteely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings. -- Spectator
Author Bio
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loveed of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.