The Josephine Tey Collection: 6 Alan Grant Novels; Brat Farrar; & Miss Pym Disposes

The Man in the Queue; A Shilling for Candles; The Franchise Affair; To Love and Be Wise; The Daughter of Time; The Singing Sands; Miss Pym Disposes; Brat Farrar

By: Josephine Tey

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 61 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including 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.

Miss Pym Disposes - Bestselling author Lucy Pym is initially thrilled to be invited to lecture at Leys Physical Training College. However, a tragic accident in the gymnasium reveals a darker side to the school, and unexpectedly Miss Pym finds she must draw on her psychological expertise to trace who, of all these wholesome girls, has violence on the mind.

Brat Farrar - A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself.

Public Domain (P)2023 SNR Audio

Total excellence

The beautiful writing was enhanced about the amazing g talent of the narrator. I wish that Josephine Tey had written more!

Stylish classical mystery writing

Excellent plots, well developed characters by a master of the Golden Age of women mystery writers. Josephine Tey deserves a far wider audience and the kind of films being made of other writers like Agatha Christie. She was gone far too soon, as these stories demonstrate.

Excellently read

I enjoyed the character of Alan Grant. I especially liked “the daughter of time”. Wonderful piece of historical fiction.

Brilliant on all counts!

Josephine Tey is terrific, and I had read all of these books in print, but the audible reading of Karen Cass brought so much more to them! Many thanks for creating this!

They saved the best for last!

Hours of excellent stories. Quite a variety of characters and situations all well narrated. Highly recommend!

Audible Perfection

A decade of so ago, I devoured all of Josephine Tey’s remarkable procedural mysteries with alacrity. That was my mistake. By reading these stories hurriedly, I missed their genius as novels: especially their exquisite character portrayals. By listening to these stories slowly in Audible, I came to appreciate one of the very best authors of mystery stories in English. In my view, better than Christie or Sayers.

How delightful!!!

You may have read Tey’s Daughter of Time, but who knew she had written more clever mysteries?? Post-war England with Inspector Grant, who is a realistic enough character to make mistakes and take us up the wrong path now and then. Interesting characters and situations and surprising final solutions. Beautifully written and beautifully read. Betsy T

Thank you Audible - best spent credit ever

Eight Brilliant and Timeless Novels! Each of the books on this compendium is a masterpiece. At least one - The Singing Sands - has seemingly never been available through Audible before. Another - To Love And Be Wise- has been, but THIS narrator is MUCH better. Josephine Tey wrote books that were, at the time, hugely popular - even though hers were at least over half a century ahead of those of her contemporary mystery writers, Her prose is truly timeless, elegant, and simply distinctive. This narrator does each book full justice. If you already know and like Tey, you will treasure this recording. If you've never encountered Tey, this Audible offering may make you an addict.

All of Alan Grant in one

I have been wanting to read the story of the singing sands again. It was my first Alan Grant novel. The 60+ hours for this collection of stories was daunting but I was surprised how quickly I got through all the stories. I had several of the individual books on my wish list. So when this became available that packaged them all together and more, it was a no brainer to get with only one credit. Thank you audible.

Outstanding

I read Josephine Tey years ago and enjoyed her. But listening to the books is even better because I tend to gobble up mysteries without really chewing them and Tey deserves to be savored. She was an excellent writer and Karen Cass an excellent reader (and I'm really fussy) and the combination is outstanding.