Brat Farrar

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802064044
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brat Farrar written by Josephine Tey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series An impostor has a fortune to win - but he may be in danger of losing his life... Twenty-one-year-old Brat Farrar is an orphan, alone in the world without friends or family. So when he is offered the unexpected chance to impersonate Patrick Ashby, the long-lost heir to a vast fortune on a country estate, he agrees. Brat is the spitting image of Patrick, who disappeared years ago. At first it seems Brat can pull off this incredible deception, until he starts to realise that he is in far greater peril than he ever imagined.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brat Farrar written by Josephine Tey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about the Ashbys, an English country-squire family. Their centuries-old family estate is Latchetts, in the fictional village of Clare, near the south coast of England. It takes place in the late 1940s, after World War II. The Ashby family consists of Beatrice Ashby ("Aunt Bee"), a spinster of about 50, and the four children of her late brother Bill: Simon, 20; Eleanor, 18–19 and the twins Jane and Ruth, 9. Bill and his wife Nora died eight years earlier. Since then, the Ashbys have been short of money. Bee has kept the estate going by turning the family stable into a profitable business and combining breeding, selling and training horses with riding lessons. When Simon turns 21, he will inherit Latchetts and a large trust fund left by his mother. Simon had a twin brother, Patrick, who was older than him by a few minutes, but soon after Bill and Nora died, Patrick had disappeared and left what was taken to be a suicide note. The title character, Brat Farrar, is a young man recently returned to England from America. He was a foundling. At the age of 13, the orphanage placed him in an office job but he ran away instead. He ended up in the western US, where he worked at ranches and stables for several years and became an expert horseman, until a fall injured his leg, leaving him with a limp...

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780194792172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Brat Farrar written by Josephine Tey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word count 24,510 Bestseller

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2385086174
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Singing Sands written by Josephine Tey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Queue (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries) written by Josephine Tey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A festive atmosphere envelops the line of people waiting for one of the last showings of a popular London musical comedy. Excitement is so big, and crowd is so large that people are being carried rather than walking. As the line eventually reaches the box office one man drops on his knees and slowly spreads on the floor. People jump to help, thinking he had fainted, but get horrified when they see a knife stuck in his back. There are so many witnesses, but nobody saw anything and nobody can tell when it happened as the man has been held upright for a while, carried by the moving crowd. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is summoned to investigate the case. Known for his wit and guile Inspector Grant will have to deal with a lot of false leads and clues, which will take him all the way to Scotland, in order to solve this mysterious murder case.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476733295
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Pym Disposes written by Josephine Tey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym's cover-up of one crime precipitates another -- a fatal "accident" that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder.

Author : Mary Stewart
Publisher : HarperTorch
ISBN 13 : 9780380820740
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ivy Tree written by Mary Stewart and published by HarperTorch. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Grey has nothing to look forward to except a future as colorless as her name. So if she looks, walks, and smiles so much like the glamorous missing heiress Annabel Winslow, why not be her for a little while? Because fairy tales do not come true...and someone wants Annabel to stay missing.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2385086204
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Love and Be Wise written by Josephine Tey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Alan Bradley
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385678452
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grave's a Fine and Private Place written by Alan Bradley and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder—although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.

Author : Aditi Khorana
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1595148566
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirror in the Sky written by Aditi Khorana and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara, an Indian-American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world dramatically change when a mirror planet to Earth is discovered and she, in this new era of scientific history, reconsiders her self and possible selves.