'An ingenious book' SARAH WATERS'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMESMarion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country...

'The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world' VAL MCDERMID 'The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It...

'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVERScotland Yard inspector Alan Grant,...

The Daughter of Time von Tey, Josephine

Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard....

"The Daughter of Time" ist ein Kriminalroman von Josephine Tey, der sich auf eine historische Untersuchung konzentriert. Der Protagonist, Inspektor Alan Grant, liegt im Krankenhaus und langweilt sich. Um seine Zeit zu vertreiben, beginnt...

A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. von Tey, Josephine

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"Der singende Sand" ist ein spannender Kriminalroman von Josephine Tey. Die Handlung konzentriert sich auf den Protagonisten Alan Grant, einen Inspektor bei Scotland Yard, der sich nach einer schweren Verletzung in einem Krankenhaus...

"Alibi für einen König" von Maria Wolff ist ein spannender Kriminalroman, der in einem fiktiven europäischen Königreich spielt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um den mysteriösen Mord an einem hochrangigen Regierungsbeamten, der das gesamte...

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...