The stranger, who has gone by the name of Brat Farrar, has led a life of adventure and has come home just in time to assume his inheritance. His twin, Simon, will turn twenty-one soon and inherit the family estate at Lachetts in Patrick’s stead.Įnter a stranger who looks too much like Simon to be ignored and claiming to be Patrick, not a suicide, just a run away. A body washed up downstream from his home, but unrecognizable, was assumed to be his and buried. Patrick Ashby is meant to have committed suicide when he was thirteen years old. ( )Ī lovely little interlude from heavy reading, this early mystery was reminiscent of one of my favorite Daphne du Maurier novels, The Scapegoat. The key elements of the plot seemed transparent to me early on, so I enjoyed this as a relaxing read, full of detailed descriptions of a horse breeding and racing household in post-WWII England. Where is a very clever mental exercise, is a clever tale of a scam that encounters unanticipated wrinkles. I found to be similar to, not just in Tey's writing style, but also in that they aren't straightforward crime novels.
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