Singing sand

Author: Josephine Tey
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This is Josephine Tey's last novel, and our reading of her works comes to an end here—"Until the Fat Lady Sings," everything fits the saying, except there's no fat lady, but instead, the strange singing sand, and the loyal presence of Detective Grant. A young man dies drunk on a train, and the fellow passenger, Detective Grant, accidentally finds several strange lines of poetry written in the corner of a newspaper left behind by the deceased. His intuition honed through years of investigation and his unique ability to judge appearances convince him it's a murder case. On vacation, Grant launches a relentless investigation on his own. The journey to trace the evidence is exceptionally arduous, yet when the last thread of clues seems to have broken, the murderer confesses himself.