Alan Grant mysteries
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A woman's body lay limp on the beach. And while the waves lapped gently at her scarlet-tipped toes, twisted in her hair was an article which screamed murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case would become a nightmare of too many clues and too many motives. For the woman was the famous screen actress, Christine Clay. And the world was full of people who wanted her dead.
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The third book in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
Val McDermid described Josephine Tey as the 'most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age', and this unconventional crime mystery – one of the best loved of Tey's works – is a brilliant example of what makes her so unique.
A town full of colourful characters and an impossible disappearance, all threaded through with Tey's signature psychological
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"Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed." -- Back cover.
