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...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading. von Tey, Josephine

"The Complete of Josephine Tey: Six Classic Detective Novels" ist eine Sammlung von sechs klassischen Kriminalromanen der britischen Autorin Josephine Tey, die für ihre fesselnden und psychologisch tiefgründigen Geschichten bekannt ist....

Die berühmte Schauspielerin Christine Clay liegt tot unter den Klippen eines beschaulichen Städtchens und alles scheint klar: Unfall oder Selbstmord. Irrtum - es ist Mord. Aber auch der ist schnell aufgeklärt - der Täter ist natürlich...

"Der letzte Zug nach Schottland" ist ein Kriminalroman von Josephine Tey, der Teil der Alan Grant-Reihe ist. In diesem Buch wird Inspector Alan Grant von Scotland Yard mit einem mysteriösen Mordfall konfrontiert. Die Geschichte beginnt...

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....

In one of Tey's bestselling mystery novels ever, Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to one of history's most heinous villains--a king who killed his...

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is highly skeptical of a young woman's tale of her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment in a musty attic--until an enterprising young lawyer shines a light on some dark corners in The Franchise, a...

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,...

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 TIMESMarion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country...