The Singing Sands - Couverture souple

Tey, Josephine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0684818922 ISBN 13 : 9780684818924

Editeur : Scribner, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Tey Josephine

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Bestselling author Josephine Tey’s classic final mystery featuring her best-loved character, Inspector Alan Grant, filled with “all the Tey magic and delight” and now featuring a new introduction by Robert Barnard.

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.

Quatrième de couverture :

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...

'Really first class ... a continual delight' Times Literary Supplement

'Beautifully written and insistently readable' New York Times

'Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings' Spectator

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684818922
• ISBN 13: 9780684818924
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224