Josephine Tey
1) Brat Farrar
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A young English orphan who tries to pass himself off as the rightful heir in a horse-breeding family goes through a process of regeneration as he unfolds a murder mystery.
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Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is highly skeptical of a young woman's tale of her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment in a musty attic--until an enterprising young lawyer shines a light on some dark corners in The Franchise, a decrepit old country house.