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      • Inspector Alan Grant is a Scotland Yard detective who relies on his instincts and often goes against the evidence if his gut feeling says so. He is thorough and systematic in his investigations and always pulls through.
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  2. 4 days ago · Inspector Alan Grant was born in the Midlands in England on 4th August, 1894. An Englishman by birth, little is known about his family except that his father was Scottish, and that his grandfather ‘belonged to the Strathspey’.

    • The Man in the Queue. 3.77 · 10991 Ratings · 1048 Reviews · published 1929 · 297 editions. Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of …
    • A Shilling for Candles. 3.93 · 8365 Ratings · 614 Reviews · published 1936 · 3 editions. When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stret…
    • The Franchise Affair. 3.96 · 8930 Ratings · 986 Reviews · published 1948 · 340 editions. Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow da…
    • To Love and Be Wise. 4.03 · 6030 Ratings · 539 Reviews · published 1950 · 276 editions. When a young strikingly handsome photographer myst…
  3. In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a minor character.)

  4. Alan Grant is an Inspector for Scotland Yard. Grant is a dapper man, who is smooth. Alan is a rarity, a Scotland Yard Inspector, rather than the private detective that would later be used to death in all of mystery writing.

  5. Sep 25, 2015 · In a hospital recuperating from a broken leg, Detective Inspector Alan Grant despairs of the books on his bedside table, among them a writing-by-numbers mystery called The Case of the Missing...

  6. Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer—whom no one saw. A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre.

  7. It revolved around the investigation by Inspector Alan Grant of the Scotland Yard about the kidnapping of a local woman. A young woman named Marion Sharpe and her mother are accused of kidnapping a local woman named Betty Kane.