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...