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Tey’s writing reminds me of Daphne du Maurier (atmospheric), Agatha Christie (great plot development), and Ruth Rendell (psychological suspense). And Brat Farrar, an orphan who’s impersonating the missing boy, is the only one who can discover what really, really happened to Patrick Ashby, the boy who’s come back from the dead in the person of Brat Farrar.

Brat Farrar is just such a story, in which the truth about a thirteen year old boy’s disappearance nine years before the story actually begins, is a truth that needs a lot of investigation and patient scrutiny to come clear. Tey’s detective stories are often concerned with elaborate lies, and impersonations, and unravelling the truth. 2009 by Josephine Tey (Author) 1,766 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £0.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £17.43 1 New from £17.43 Paperback £7.99 7 Used from £3.28 12 New from £6.99 1 Collectible from £3.99 Audio CD from £22.54 1 New from £22. Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable, if familiar, trip. 'Brat Farrar' is another of her masterpiece. In 1990, 'The Daughter of Time' was selected by the British-based Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time. Mind you, in some respects The Daughter of Time is sui generis. This book contains two mystery novels by Josephine Tey, 'The Daughter of Time' and 'Brat Farrar'. I think I’ve read this book before I sort of had a deja vu idea of what was going to happen almost from the beginning of the story. Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar: ‘Who are you’ ‘Retribution.’ NovemRohan Maitzen I’ve been rereading The Daughter of Time for decades, so it’s odd that until now I had never read another novel by Josephine Tey.