Inspector Alan Grant: The Full Collection

6 Novels

De: Josephine Tey

Narrado por: Karen Cass

Inspector Alan Grant: The Full Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series from famed crime writer, Josephine Tey.

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.

This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

Public Domain (P)2023 SNR Audio

Delicious

So much greatness all together. I had read some of these before, especially Daughter of Time. I don’t know why, but I have read it several times and still enjoy it.
J Tey writes well and her books make sense. I enjoy the characters she creates and their inside selves. I also like how everything comes together to make a whole. I also like how she keeps Grant a person and not a superhero, even though we follow him through all the books. Each book stands alone so you don’t need to have read other books with Grant in them. It’s a group, a series, and if you want you can sort of figure out which came where in kind of an order, but that’s not important. You can enjoy them as stand alone stories. I enjoy how the characters take you through the adventure and it all makes sense, especially the end, the unfolding. Narrator pretty good, although it might have been interesting to hear how others would have interpreted them. I don’t see her as the definitive voice for these books. I might like to hear them with a male voice and a narrator that gave the characters more individual “voices”.

Perfect

Where has Josephine Tey been all my life? Beautiful writing, wonderful narration, clever mysteries, and a very human detective, who could ask for more? I have another name to add to my pantheon.

BORING

This is the first time I have ever given 1star to a mystery (?) or a full set. If I wanted a history lesson I would buy a book on the subject. Could not finish the last book just gave up on it midway. Obviously not my taste though some may love it.

Unique writing style

Detective stories are unique in style. Nice change to the regular detective stories I am use to reading

Great story

Well written and read beautifully. Mysteries were worth the listen highly recommend it for anyone who wants to listen to a witty book

Pompous and unsatisfying

Main detective tries to be humble, but comes off as disingenuous, and “above it all”. If you want to try and solve the mystery forget it because something is seen/read by the detective but is kept from the reader. Or even worse the detective knows the wrong man is arrested but can’t prove it till the real culprit is overcome with guilt over an innocent man going to prison and confesses. Just stay away.