Brat Farrar (Annotated)

Brat Farrar is one of Josephine Tey's most elegant studies in identity, inheritance, and moral ambiguity. Set among the horse-breeding Ashby family at Latchetts, the novel begins with an imposture: Brat Farrar is persuaded to present himself as Patrick Ashby, the long-lost heir presumed dead. Tey transforms this premise into a finely controlled psychological mystery, less concerned with mechanical...