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MacKintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother. In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a
Inspector Alan Grant is brought onto the case and he follows several painstaking leads, first to learn the identity of the dead man and then to track that possible killer who approached the dead man in the queue. Just one person notices the victim, and recalls another man who came to argue with the victim, and describes their appearance to Grant.
The Rivers of London series (alternatively, the Peter Grant or the PC Grant series [1]) is a series of urban fantasy novels by English author Ben Aaronovitch, and comics/graphic novels by Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, illustrated by Lee Sullivan.
He does break it out of interest, however, in order to visit a Hebridean island that is supposed to be distinguished by the 'singing sands' that give the book its title. As the symptoms of stress begin to disappear in the book's second half, Grant returns to London, unsatisfied with the inquest's verdict of death by misadventure. A newspaper ...
The subsequent police-like investigation that Grant undertakes during the remainder of the novel in order to find some circumstantial evidence that Richard (or anyone else) disposed of the princes reveals that there never was a Bill of Attainder, coroner's inquest, or any other legal proceeding that contemporaneously accused – much less ...
Detective Inspector John Rebus, by Ian Rankin; Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds; Arkady Renko, of the Moscow Militsya, by Martin Cruz Smith; Dave Robicheaux, by James Lee Burke; Detective Inspector Jack Robinson, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries; Jim Rockford, The Rockford Files; Lincoln Rhyme, by Jeffery Deaver; David Rossi, Unit Senior Agent ...
Inspector Frost – created by R. D. Wingfield; D.C.S. Christopher Foyle – from the British TV series Foyle's War, created by Anthony Horowitz; Chief Inspector Armand Gamache – created by Louise Penny; Inspector Alan Grant – created by Josephine Tey; Inspector Japp – created by Agatha Christie; Richard Jury – created by mystery author ...
Each of them develops a sideline in sleuthing with the help of Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, played by Robson Green. The series is based on The Grantchester Mysteries, collections of short stories written by James Runcie. [1] The first series was based on the six stories from the first book, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death. [2]