The Singing Sands - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:1996-12-16Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780684818924ISBN-10:684818922UPC:9780684818924Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Traditional, Police Procedural, 20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.34 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.42Product ID:SC89B9NYYG
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780684818924ISBN-10:684818922UPC:9780684818924Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Traditional, Police Procedural, 20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.34 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.42Product ID:SC89B9NYYG
Josephine Tey began writing full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. She died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust. Robert Barnard (1936-2013) was awarded the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agatha and Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he was a member of Britain's distinguished Detection Club, and, in May 2003, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing.
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