Book description
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 thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to
have drowned himself.
It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible
deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the
imposter's plan and his very life...
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime
writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication
of her first novel,
The Man in the Queue
(1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she
returned to crime writing with
A Shilling for Candles
, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of
her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her
entire estate to the National Trust.
