Brat Farrar (light wear) - Josephine Tey

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey / 284-page paperback published in 2023 in the Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage Series / new copies with light cover wear from inbound shipping

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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph

An impostor has a fortune to win - but he may be in danger of losing his life...

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. Brat is the spitting image of Patrick, who disappeared years ago. At first it seems Brat can pull off this incredible deception, until he starts to realise that he is in far greater peril than he ever imagined.

"Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate."--New York Times

Josephine Tey began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. It wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Born in Inverness, Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.