Inspector Grant's Cases Quotes

“obvious thing to do. He had given Lamont his chance of going quietly, and he had not taken it, even though his”
― Josephine Tey, Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries - Complete Series: Detective Novels: The Daughter of Time / The Man in the Queue / The Franchise Affair…

“In some parts of the States, I understand, it’s as much as a man’s political life is worth to go to some constituencies with his tie tied and his coat on. That’s being stuffed-shirt. The beau ideal is to be one of the boys.”
― Josephine Tey, Inspector Grant's Cases: Complete Series

“O God,” he says, “what security are our kings to have henceforth in the day of battle if their loyal followers may in defeat be deprived of life, fortune, and inheritance”.”
― Josephine Tey, Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries - Complete Series: Detective Novels: The Daughter of Time / The Man in the Queue / The Franchise Affair…