The Singing Sands

  • The Singing Sands
    By Josephine Tey

    Bestselling author Josephine Tey’s classic final mystery featuring her best-loved character, Inspector Alan Grant, filled with “all the Tey magic and delight” and now featuring a new introduction by Robert Barnard.

  • The Singing Sands: An Inspector Alan Grant Mystery
    By Josephine Tey

    Unpublished at the time of author Josephine Tey’s death, The Singing Sands was recovered from her papers and released posthumously. It is today recognized as one of the author’s finest works.

  • The Singing Sands
    By Josephine Tey

    Indeed, in her more straightforward detective stories Josephine Tey often reveals a sort of impatience with the rules and conventions of the whodunit. In A Shilling for Candles, for example, two of the three plot strands are unravelled ...

  • The Singing Sands: Inspector Allan Grant #6
    By Josephine Tey

    On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night...

  • The Singing Sands
    By Josephine Tey

    The Singing Sands

  • The Singing Sands: Special Edition
    By Josephine Tey

    We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.

  • The Singing Sands
    By Josephine Tey

    On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue.

  • The Singing Sands
    By Singing Sands

    Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about 'the stones that walk' and 'the singing sand,' which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity ...

  • The Singing Sands
    By Josephine Tey

    The Singing Sands