Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Published: 1949 | Series: Standalone
Twenty-one-year-old Brat Farrar is an orphan, alone in the world without friends or family. So when he is offered the unexpected chance to impersonate Patrick Ashby, the long-lost heir to a vast fortune on a country estate, he agrees. All is going to plan until Brat begins to realise that he is in far greater peril than he ever imagined.
About Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey (1896-1952) is the pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh. The Scottish author's other pen name was Gordon Daviot. Under the latter, she wrote numerous stage, radio, and television plays, as well as poetry and nonfiction. She is remembered for her series detective, Inspector Alan Grant. He featured in six novels, most notably Daughter of Time and The Franchise Affair. Her standalone crime novels included Miss Pym Disposes and Brat Farrar. Her novel, A Shilling for Candles, was the basis of Hitchcock's 1937 film Young and Innocent.
Brat Farrar is featured in The Tichborne Claimant and Cui Bono? episodes. To learn more about Josephine Tey, listen to Josephine Tey's Golden Age.
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