Er schob die Zeitung beiseite, aber dann bemerkte er, dass eine Stelle mit Bleistift bekritzelt war. Alan Grant zog die Zeitung wieder heran, um zu sehen, was für Rechnungen da wohl jemand angestellt hatte. Aber das Gekritzel stammte...

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. When a beautiful young actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning, Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide,...

Ganz London, scheint es, steht vor dem Woffington Schlange. Nach zwei Jahren Spielzeit ist dies die letzte Woche von Wussten Sie es nicht? . Wer das legendäre Musical noch einmal sehen will, muss stundenlang vor der Theaterkasse...

Alibi für einen König: Krimonalroman. Ungekürzte Fassung

On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger has been found dead. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased scrawled on a newspaper, the Inspector follows a trail to...

'An ingenious book' SARAH WATERS 'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMES Marion 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