![]() I found to be similar to, not just in Tey's writing style, but also in that they aren't straightforward crime novels. ![]() But in the title character, we have one of the most fascinating imposters in crime fiction. ![]() Where is a very clever mental exercise, is a clever tale of a scam that encounters unanticipated wrinkles. Brat Farrar (1949) This is a stand-aloneno Alan Grant to be found, even in passing. The key elements of the plot seemed transparent to me early on, so I enjoyed this as a relaxing read, full of detailed descriptions of a horse breeding and racing household in post-WWII England. ( )Ī lovely little interlude from heavy reading, this early mystery was reminiscent of one of my favorite Daphne du Maurier novels, The Scapegoat. Patrick Ashby is meant to have committed suicide when he was thirteen years old. A body washed up downstream from his home, but unrecognizable, was assumed to be his and buried. His twin, Simon, will turn twenty-one soon and inherit the family estate at Lachetts in Patrick’s stead.Įnter a stranger who looks too much like Simon to be ignored and claiming to be Patrick, not a suicide, just a run away. ![]() ![]() Not long after the accident, Patrick (the oldest of the children) threw himself off of a cliff near Latchetts. Their aunt Bee left her job and life in London in order to look after them. Eights years ago the children lost their parents in a plane crash. The stranger, who has gone by the name of Brat Farrar, has led a life of adventure and has come home just in time to assume his inheritance. Summary of the plot : The Ashby family lives at Latchetts. ![]()
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