Winner of the Dutton Mystery Prize
London is abuzz as the beautiful Ray Marcable’s final shows at the West End approach. Before she jets off to perform in America everyone in the city is clamoring to see her once more. The lines wrap around the street and crowds are tightly knit together. One fateful night, just as he is nearing the box office, a man drops to the ground—dead. Although a knife protrudes from his back and there were countless potential witnesses, no one knows the poor man and no one saw who did the deadly deed.
It is up to Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard to solve this case. Riddled with false leads and misleading clues, this mystery from Josephine Tey, one of the bestselling authors from the Golden Age of detective fiction, will take the witty Inspector Grant on a wild journey worthy of his first appearance in literature.
Josephine Tey (1896–1952) née Elizabeth MacKintosh was a Scottish author best known for her detective fiction, particularly The Daughter of Time (1951) which was chosen by the Crime Writers’ Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. She wrote six novels featuring her beloved crime solver Inspector Alan Grant, the first of which was published under yet another pseudonym Gordon Daviot. Three of her novels have been turned into films, including A Shilling for Candles (1936) which Alfred Hitchcock adapted as Young and Innocent in 1937.
Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.