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First published in 1929. A young man is stabbed in the back with a stiletto dagger while waiting in the queue for standing room at one of the final West End performances of a hit musical comedy. None of those near him in the queue noticed him until he collapsed, or...
In Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey weaves a compelling tale of deception, identity, and family secrets. The story begins when a mysterious young man named Brat Farrar arrives in England, claiming to be the long-lost heir to the Ashby family fortune. Having been coached to...
In Miss Pym Disposes, Josephine Tey presents a gripping psychological mystery set in an English girls' physical training college. The story follows Miss Lucy Pym, a former schoolteacher turned bestselling psychologist, who is invited to give a lecture at the college....
The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of inspector Grant, brings him some pictures of historical...
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesAn 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 is offered the unexpected chance to...
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to be?Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can...
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as...
'The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world' VAL MCDERMID 'The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn't aged a day' JOSEPH KNOX When...
'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVERScotland Yard inspector Alan Grant, recovering from a broken leg, becomes...
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...
On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure - but Grant is not so sure. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had...
A classic murder mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, written by genre legend Josephine Tey.Leys Physical Training College is famous for its excellent discipline and its spectacularly athletic students. Miss Lucy Pym, expert psychologist, is pleased and...
'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 home, the Franchise. Everything...
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. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional...
Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto...
Une adolescente accuse deux femmes de l'avoir battue et séquestrée : un grand classique de la littérature policière des années 1940, inspirée d'une histoire vraie. Surrey, 1948. L'inspecteur Grant est dépêché par Scotland Yard à Milford pour aider la police locale à...
Un roman à énigmes dans la pure tradition du whodunit britannique, écrit en 1936 par la reine du crime écossaise et adapté par Hitchcock au cinéma.Peu après la découverte d'un cadavre sur la plage, la nouvelle est sur toutes les lèvres : Christine Clay, l'actrice au...
Ce soir de mars, au théâtre Woffington, tout Londres s'est donné rendez-vous pour la dernière d'une comédie musicale au succès retentissant ! Mais alors que la foule se presse aux portes, un homme s'effondre... Et chacun peut contempler avec horreur le manche du...
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