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Inspector Alan Grant: The Full Collection
- 6 Novels
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 44 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
The novels included here are:
The Man in the Queue - Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theatre and for the identity of the killer—whom no-one saw.
A Shilling for Candles - Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning, even though the area is notorious for such incidents.
The Franchise Affair - A town full of colourful characters and an impossible disappearance, all threaded through with Tey’s signature psychological probing.
To Love and Be Wise - The incomparable Inspector Alan Grant returns in the latest addition to our enormously popular Josephine Tey series. As well as all the usual delights of Tey’s writing and the Inspector himself, To Love and Be Wise also features one of the most cunning and surprising twists of any of Tey’s novels.
The Daughter of Time - Still Tey’s most enduringly popular mystery. Can a bed-ridden 20th-century detective solve a 500-year-old crime?
The Singing Sands - Centres on the mysterious death of a young man on a train, and the cryptic poem that gradually reveals the greed and envy behind his demise.
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- June
- 11-05-24
Brilliant collection
Couldn't put it down and binge listened one after the other. Great narration and story lines.
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- Tracey
- 29-01-24
Unusual
Love the narrator, she brings life to all she reads. The difference in all the books is enchanting & bringing an historical murder in was a brilliant twist.
Recommend wholeheartedly
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- J. Wexler
- 11-02-24
Great stories, fantastic reader.
These stories were a lot of fun. A lot of entertainment packed in one audiobook. The Protagonist is a well developed person who has a real humanity to him.
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- Bretton Girl
- 08-05-24
Updating my review. Largely enjoyed this but too few Grant stories
I like Alan Grant he's an interesting character I've always felt a bit frustrated that the franchise affair is included in the books that described as being Alan Grant books because he's hardly in it and in fact in his case it's a failure. he largely has the wool pulled over his eyes in that case and I really don't think that he would have because all of the investigations that the solicitor does to support the accused women are things that Grant would have done naturally anyway. also it's hard to understand why Scotland yard was brought into the case as it wasn't something that involved important people and certainly at that early stage (when he's brought in) it might have petered out into nothing. I do disagree with people who say it's misogynistic because both the accused and the accuser are in fact females. I know people are inclined to think the story is far fetched but I have known people like Betty and Rose. I've known male versions of them and female versions of them.
Some people might say tje story demonstrates class bias but again both families involved are middle class and not wealthy.
Nevertheless, I do like the other stories more. in particular the last one, Singing Sands which is set in Scotland and also The Man in the queue which does spend some of the narrative in Scotland as well.
Tey's stories have a certain quirkiness that Christie's stories lack. And I particularly like her descriptions of Scotland and London.
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- Adrian Pearson
- 24-07-23
What a great writer - the female version of Conan Doyle
I so enjoyed this series - so clever and colourful with brilliantly observed characterisation and deftly crafted plots - wonderfully entertaining
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- Womerry2
- 10-12-23
Absolutely no issue with narration!
This is an excellent opportunity to immerse yourself in Golden Age crime - and a bargain to get all this for just one credit. The narration is faultless.
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- DL
- 24-09-23
Good books, shortcomings in recordings
Very fond of Josephine Tey's work, especially The Daughter of Time and The Franchise Affair, and it's good to have the books together in one anthology. But there's something unsettling about the narration which frequently lapses into an odd staccato. Another reviewer has described it as robotic. Very odd, and a great pity.
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- June
- 27-09-23
Uniteresting
I found this uninteresting and usually ended up falling asleep. Eventually gave up trying to listen to it
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- Sarah White
- 16-08-23
Hmm…man gets stabbed in a theatre queue. Police go chasing after one red herring after another. Conclusion comes out of the blue
Awful…..persisted in case it got better. This will go into my deletion box!! So badly written it was excruciating. The narration, although clear sounded robotic.
Please don’t waste time or money.
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