Brat Farrar
by Josephine Tey
What begins as a trick to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor's life hanging in the balance. In this story of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner temple of the Ashby family and poses as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's considerable wealth. The Stranger, Brother Farrar, was carefully educated about Patrick's behavior, appearance, and every important detail of Patrick's early life until his thirteenth year, when he was believed to have disappeared and drowned. It seems that Brother will eliminate this most incredible deception until the old secrets that endanger the impostor's plan and life are revealed. Culminating in the last frightening moment when everything unfolds, Brother Farrar is a shaky adventure that embraces the reader early and firmly and then continues until it is explosively completed.
