Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Unremarkable that is, until the police turn up with a demure young woman on their doorstep.

Inspector Alan Grant, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure?

A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his 13th year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself.

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Reissue of a detective novel featuring Inspector Alan Grant, a correct, unassuming type from Scotland Yard, who becomes immersed in the mystery surrounding the fate of the young nephews of the infamous King Richard III. Tey's other novels include Brat Farrar , and The Franchise Affair.

Miss Pym's invitation to lecture on psychology at the Leys Physical Training College is curtailed when a student meets a nasty accident. Lucy Pym is forced to apply her agile intellect to solving the crimes of someone with a sick mind.

If Patrick really had committed suicide as a schoolboy, who was this mysterious young man claiming to be him and calling himself Brat Farrar? It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving his pitiful note. Now it seemed he had returned - just in time to claim the family inheritance.

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. Grant's enquiries take him to the remote Hebrides, where the bizarre circumstances of the death begin to become clear.

The body of a beautiful young film actress is found at the foot of a sea cliff. The area is notorious for suicides but the hardened coastguard has his suspicions, and the discovery becomes another test for the sleuthing skills of Inspector Alan Grant.

Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto...

Apparently, all Hollywood would have gone down on its knees to be photographed by Leslie Searle. So why should he suddenly disappear? Was it murder, or merely some elaborate practical joke? This was a case that required all Detective Inspector Grant's ingenuity.