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Brat FarrarBrat Farrar

Brat Farrar1953

Josephine Tey

3.9(15)on Hardcover

About this book

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.

Details

First published
1953
ISBN-10
0684803852
OL Work ID
OL80945W

Subjects

Condensed booksEnglish languageFictionImpersonationImpostors and impostureInheritance and successionReadersLarge type booksFiction, mystery & detective, generalMissing persons, fictionFiction, thrillers, suspenseEngland, fictionFarrar, brat (fictitious character), fictionImposters and imposture

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