num_pages: 256
description: On his train journey back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure -- but Grant is not so sure. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper, he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides. And though it is the end of his holiday, it is also the beginning of an intriguing investigation into the bizarre circumstances shrouding Charles Martin’s death…
language: English
title: The Singing Sands
titlecomplete: The Singing Sands
characters: Inspector Alan Grant
genres: Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Detective, Historical Mystery, Scotland, British Literature, Crime, Classics, Mystery
ratings_count: 6298
places: England
series: Inspector Alan Grant
publisher: Arrow