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The Singing Sands
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Author:
Tey, Josephine
Author of introduction, etc.:
Barnard, Robert
Series:
Alan Grant mysteries volume 6.
Published:
Scribner 2020
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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 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 walk" and "the singing sand," which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor's orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder.
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Street Date:
04/28/2020
Language:
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ISBN:
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Josephine Tey. (2020). The Singing Sands. Scribner.

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Josephine Tey. 2020. The Singing Sands. Scribner.

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Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands. Scribner, 2020.

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Josephine Tey. The Singing Sands. Scribner, 2020.

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