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2. Fishing for Clues
Episode 2 of 4
Inspector Alan Grant learns the dead man’s name, but why was he heading to the Highlands? Read by Paul Young.
On compulsory leave, Inspector Alan Grant's has travelled by train to the Scottish Highlands
The dead man in an adjoining sleeping compartment is finally identified.
He'd been drinking heavily, but left an enigmatic clue of a poem scrawled in a newspaper.
But why was he heading to the Highlands?
Josephine Tey's detective mystery, first published in 1952.
Abridged by Sian Preece.
Read by Paul Young.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made by BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2008.
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