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Brat Farrar
by Josephine Tey
The Return of Patrick Ashby
Review of the Arrow paperback edition (2009) of the 1949 original
Josephine Tey is one of the classic mystery writers and the author of the genre-bending time-crossing [b:The Daughter of Time|6094905|The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)|Josephine Tey|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320489943l/6094905._SY75_.jpg|3222080] (1949) where her regular detective Inspector Grant investigates the supposed crimes of England's Richard III through historical documents when he is sidelined from regular cases due to illness.
Brat Farrar is one of Tey's few non-Inspector Grant books. She still makes a few genre-bending steps by revealing the main character's impersonation deception at the front end. Despite that revelation early on, there is still a constant level of suspense and increasing danger throughout the book. You are wondering whether the deception can be maintained and whether there are people who know more than they will reveal. And you wonder whether there are some who definitely know that Brat Farrar could not possibly be the lost heir Patrick Ashby, and there is only one possible reason that they could know that.
This was a re-read of an old favourite, and I'm tempted to re-read several more Josephine Teys in the near future as I read all of them 20-30 years ago well before the Goodreads days.
Review of the Arrow paperback edition (2009) of the 1949 original
Josephine Tey is one of the classic mystery writers and the author of the genre-bending time-crossing [b:The Daughter of Time|6094905|The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)|Josephine Tey|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320489943l/6094905._SY75_.jpg|3222080] (1949) where her regular detective Inspector Grant investigates the supposed crimes of England's Richard III through historical documents when he is sidelined from regular cases due to illness.
Brat Farrar is one of Tey's few non-Inspector Grant books. She still makes a few genre-bending steps by revealing the main character's impersonation deception at the front end. Despite that revelation early on, there is still a constant level of suspense and increasing danger throughout the book. You are wondering whether the deception can be maintained and whether there are people who know more than they will reveal. And you wonder whether there are some who definitely know that Brat Farrar could not possibly be the lost heir Patrick Ashby, and there is only one possible reason that they could know that.
This was a re-read of an old favourite, and I'm tempted to re-read several more Josephine Teys in the near future as I read all of them 20-30 years ago well before the Goodreads days.