Becoming the Mask: Brat finds himself becoming a lot more comfortable as part of the family the longer he keeps up the pretence, but this also comes with an increase in both guilt for taking advantage of them and discomfort as he begins to develop (reciprocated) feelings for his 'sister' Eleanor.

Amateur Sleuth: Brat decides to look into Patrick's suicide after he decides that Simon knows he isn't Patrick but for some reason is keeping his secret anyway.The younger twins, Jane and Ruth, are identical ( at least physically). Several people remark on the fact that the returned 'Patrick' looks much more like Simon than the young Patrick ever did.

Always Identical Twins: Actually averted - Patrick and Simon were twins, but not identical.It was also the inspiration for the 1963 Hammer Horror film Paranoiac. In 1986 the novel was adapted by The BBC as a TV miniseries, which was shown under the Mystery! banner in the US Mark Greenstreet played both Simon and Brat. While living with the Ashbys - Patrick's siblings Simon, Eleanor, Jane, and Ruth, and their Aunt Bee - Brat develops suspicions regarding Patrick's disappearance, and begins trying to solve the mystery of what happened to him. Brat Farrar is a mystery novel by Josephine Tey, written in 1949.īrat Farrar is an orphan who has been persuaded to pretend to be Patrick Ashby, the missing heir to the Ashby family, who was presumed to have committed suicide years before.

Brat farrar book summary