
Inspector Alan Grant: The Full Collection
6 Novels
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for £79.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Karen Cass
-
By:
-
Josephine Tey
About this listen
The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
The novels included here are:
The Man in the Queue - Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theatre and for the identity of the killer—whom no-one saw.
A Shilling for Candles - 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, even though the area is notorious for such incidents.
The Franchise Affair - A town full of colourful characters and an impossible disappearance, all threaded through with Tey’s signature psychological probing.
To Love and Be Wise - The incomparable Inspector Alan Grant returns in the latest addition to our enormously popular Josephine Tey series. As well as all the usual delights of Tey’s writing and the Inspector himself, To Love and Be Wise also features one of the most cunning and surprising twists of any of Tey’s novels.
The Daughter of Time - Still Tey’s most enduringly popular mystery. Can a bed-ridden 20th-century detective solve a 500-year-old crime?
The Singing Sands - Centres on the mysterious death of a young man on a train, and the cryptic poem that gradually reveals the greed and envy behind his demise.
Public Domain (P)2023 SNR AudioVey's characterisation is brilliant
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Tey is a good writer in that her novels are well-written, but Grant is a terrible detective- he doesn’t do much and, unlike Christie, the answers are mostly given to him.
I read most of these years ago as a teenager, I think only the last two were new to me. This time around, I was appalled by the racism, misogyny, class prejudice, snobbery and condescension on display. I almost stopped listening a few times. ‘The Singing Sands’ was by far the worst: Apparently stabbing women isn’t a crime, doesn’t make the perpetrator a criminal and murdering women generally is ok, if they have been ‘unfaithful’. Tey apparently believes this so strongly that she repeats it several times in this last Grant novel. I probably would have stopped listening if it hadn’t been the last one and I don’t like leaving things unfinished.
On a related note: I found the idea that Scottish Nationalists are terrorists particularly ridiculous and the description of Gaelic speakers in ‘the islands’ probably hasn’t won Tey many fans over there!
Overall, this left a bad taste in my mouth- some works, I think, should either be left in the past or redacted, (and I say this as someone who doesn’t usually believe in censoring the past). At the very least, there should be an explanatory introduction or disclaimer included for modern readers/listeners.
The Man in the Queue was the best and least offensive, followed by Daughter of Time.
I won’t be listening again.
Well written but very dated and unpleasant attitudes
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Disappointed
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Some people might say tje story demonstrates class bias but again both families involved are middle class and not wealthy.
Nevertheless, I do like the other stories more. in particular the last one, Singing Sands which is set in Scotland and also The Man in the queue which does spend some of the narrative in Scotland as well.
Tey's stories have a certain quirkiness that Christie's stories lack. And I particularly like her descriptions of Scotland and London.
Updating my review. Largely enjoyed this but too few Grant stories
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great stories, fantastic reader.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
unfairly overshadowed by Agatha Christie
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great value, and kept my mind busy.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
wonderful narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fabulous collection.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.