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Bestselling author Josephine Tey's classic final mystery features her best-loved character, Inspector Alan Grant, whose holiday gets interrupted by a murder on the train--now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard.

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 apparently... Read Full Overview

Josephine Tey wrote ingenious crime novels with utterly believable characters, beautifully crafted dialogues and plots that delight and intrigue the reader. For many, these books are their favourite crime novels, it is just a shame she didn't write more. The Singing Sands is... Read Full Overview

Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant becomes involved in a murder-case investigation when he accidentally finds a dead young man and an enigmatic verse in a train.

While traveling on the night train to Scotland, inspector Alan Grant is disturbed by a dead man in B-7. The deceased was a young man who had been drinking heavily. Having accidentally carried off the dead man's newspaper, Grant discovers a cryptic poem beside the newsprint that... Read Full Overview

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that... Read Full Overview