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Brat Farrar

by Josephine Tey · 1953

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In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the impostor's plan and his life.

Condensed booksEnglish languageFictionImpersonationImpostors and impostureInheritance and successionReadersLarge type booksFiction, mystery & detective, generalMissing persons, fictionFiction, thrillers, suspenseEngland, fiction