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Inspector Alan Grant: The Full Collection
- 6 Novels
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 44 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
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 - Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the 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 - The incomparable Inspector Alan Grant returns in the latest addition to our enormously popular Josephine Tey series. As well as all the usual delights of Tey’s writing and the Inspector 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.
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- Inkypen
- 24-08-24
Vey's characterisation is brilliant
However, characters constantly using the term 'anyhow' was irritating, as it feels like Americanisation in an otherwise very English story.
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- Liz Hoppé
- 15-05-24
Fabulous collection.
Have read most of them before but great to hear them as a whole. Well written & read and stand the test of time.
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- MAC
- 17-06-24
Fabulous writing!
Tey is a masterful writer, plots are brilliant and the language and use of words sublime!
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- June
- 11-05-24
Brilliant collection
Couldn't put it down and binge listened one after the other. Great narration and story lines.
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- Celia Tuck
- 26-07-24
Good value
There are a lot of good things about these books. The narrator is excellent and the stories reasonably good. I was a little surprised by the occasional - somewhat unnecessary- derogatory comments about women in general from a female author but it’s probably of its era.
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- Sally Stewart
- 16-05-24
unfairly overshadowed by Agatha Christie
The skill of the author in depicting places as well as characters with depth and wit
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- Anonymous User
- 10-09-24
Great value, and kept my mind busy.
I enjoyed these mysteries, and didn't find them too "samey". Great value too, I would recommend.
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- pearl macfarlane
- 29-07-24
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Gentle 1940's mystery and crime. Good twists and plots especially like the Richard twist
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- A. J. Deighton
- 14-08-24
Not your usual detective stories
It took me a little while to adjust to Josephine Tey's stories, her first book included pejorative language that would not be acceptable today. One must remember that they are of the time they are set in. As the series continues Tey find imaginative ways for her hero to conduct his investigation, including one where he is confined to a hospital bed throughout the entire story. I enjoyed the stories and am only sorry that there were not more books.
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- Bretton Girl
- 08-05-24
Updating my review. Largely enjoyed this but too few Grant stories
I like Alan Grant he's an interesting character I've always felt a bit frustrated that the franchise affair is included in the books that described as being Alan Grant books because he's hardly in it and in fact in his case it's a failure. he largely has the wool pulled over his eyes in that case and I really don't think that he would have because all of the investigations that the solicitor does to support the accused women are things that Grant would have done naturally anyway. also it's hard to understand why Scotland yard was brought into the case as it wasn't something that involved important people and certainly at that early stage (when he's brought in) it might have petered out into nothing. I do disagree with people who say it's misogynistic because both the accused and the accuser are in fact females. I know people are inclined to think the story is far fetched but I have known people like Betty and Rose. I've known male versions of them and female versions of them.
Some people might say tje story demonstrates class bias but again both families involved are middle class and not wealthy.
Nevertheless, I do like the other stories more. in particular the last one, Singing Sands which is set in Scotland and also The Man in the queue which does spend some of the narrative in Scotland as well.
Tey's stories have a certain quirkiness that Christie's stories lack. And I particularly like her descriptions of Scotland and London.
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