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The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant #6)

  • Josephine Tey

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The young man with the tumbled black hair and the reckless eyebrows was dead in compartment B Seven on the night train from London. The only message he had left behind was a verse—a strange unfinished poem that haunted Inspector Grant—that spoke of talking beasts and singing sands guarding the way to Paradise. Even on sick leave in Scotland, Grant couldn't let the puzzle alone or relax and enjoy the heather until he had uncovered all the sinister details in one of the cleverest murders in criminal history!

Genres

  • Alan Grant (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction
  • Great Britain
  • Police
  • Large type books
  • Fiction in English
  • Grant, alan, inspector (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • Great britain, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Fiction, crime
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About the author

  • Josephine Tey

    25 July 1896 - 13 February 1952

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Editions

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    MacMillan Pub Co

    Jun 18, 1953

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    Peter Davies

    Nov 29, 1952

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    Washington Square Press

    1983

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    Librairie des Champs-Elysées

    January 7, 1998

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Penguin

1977

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    Thorndike Press

    1999

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    1st Collier Books ed.

    Collier Books

    1988

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    BCA

    1976-01-01

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    2018

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    2018

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    Independently Published

    2017

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    2020

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    2020

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    2020

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    2021

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    Peter Davies

    1970-01-01

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    Macmillan

    1973-05-04

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    Folio Society

    2014-01-01

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    2021

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    Dell Publishing

    1965-01-01

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    Arrow Books

    2011-01-01

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    2020

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    2021

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    2020

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    2020

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    2021

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    2021

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    Penguin Random House

    2002

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    Penguin Publishing Group, Collier Books

    1975

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    2020

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    2021

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    2020

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    Scribner

    2020

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    2021

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    2020

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Penguin Random House

    2011

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    Penguin Random House

    2011

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    Penguin

    1977

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    Macmillan

    1953

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    P. Davies

    1952