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4 days ago · Inspector Alan Grant was born in the Midlands in England on 4th August, 1894. An Englishman by birth, little is known about his family except that his father was Scottish, and that his grandfather ‘belonged to the Strathspey’. He has a cousin Laura Rankin (nee Grant) who lives with her husband Tommy, and children Patrick and Bridget in ...
Description / Buy at Amazon. Alan Grant is an Inspector for Scotland Yard. Grant is a dapper man, who is smooth. Alan is a rarity, a Scotland Yard Inspector, rather than the private detective that would later be used to death in all of mystery writing.
- The Man in the Queue. 3.77 · 10991 Ratings · 1048 Reviews · published 1929 · 297 editions. Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of …
- A Shilling for Candles. 3.93 · 8365 Ratings · 614 Reviews · published 1936 · 3 editions. When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stret…
- The Franchise Affair. 3.96 · 8930 Ratings · 986 Reviews · published 1948 · 340 editions. Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow da…
- To Love and Be Wise. 4.03 · 6030 Ratings · 539 Reviews · published 1950 · 276 editions. When a young strikingly handsome photographer myst…
In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a minor character.)
by Josephine Tey (Author) , Robert Barnard (Introduction) 4.2 1,895 3.8 on Goodreads 11,055 ratings. Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer—whom no one saw. A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre.
The character Josephine Tey is based on the actual life of the author Tey and Detective Archie Penrose is depicted as being Inspector Alan Grant of the Scotland Yard, Tey’s main protagonist in her novels. Detective Archie is an old friend of Josephine Tey.
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Series list: Inspector Alan Grant (6 Books) by Josephine Tey. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating.
