The Singing Sands By Josephine Tey Very Good Hardcover 1964

The Singing Sands By Josephine Tey Very Good Hardcover 1964 The singing sands. paperback – december 16, 1996. bestselling author josephine tey’s classic final mystery featuring her best loved character, inspector alan grant, filled with “all the tey magic and delight” and now featuring a new introduction by robert barnard. on sick leave from scotland yard, inspector alan grant is planning a. Tey would have had to be more coy with her character's sex lives, especially in "singing sands", if she wanted to present the characters as heroes (and appeal to a wider audience). while the book's big reveal is not particularly surprising, it is rewarding, and a fitting send off for one of the golden age of detective fiction's more complex and.

The Singing Sands By Josephine Tey New Hardcover Dartmouth Books February 18, 2017. 'the singing sands' is most assuredly a classic page turning puzzler chock full of twists and turns, adventure, cryptic messages, nefarious characters, mistaken identities, and exotic intrigue. this novel is a classic 'whodunnit' from a true 'mistress of the golden age', josephine tey. Tey would have had to be more coy with her character's sex lives, especially in "singing sands", if she wanted to present the characters as heroes (and appeal to a wider audience). while the book's big reveal is not particularly surprising, it is rewarding, and a fitting send off for one of the golden age of detective fiction's more complex and. The singing sands. paperback. condition: fair. a man is found dead on a train with an empty bottle of whisky beside him. the case is investigated by inspector grant whose trip to the western highlands had begun as a much needed holiday. he has one mysterious clue a poem scribbled on the dead man's newspaper. The singing sands. hardcover – 31 may 1990. by josephine tey (author) 4.2 2,632 ratings. book 6 of 6: inspector alan grant. see all formats and editions. in the last of tey's inspector grant mysteries, her sleuth investigates a death made suspicious by a few enigmatic lines, apparently scribbled by the deceased before his demise.