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Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. Her novel The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. [1]
Sep 25, 2015 · Unlike Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey ignored the rules of golden-age British crime fiction—with brilliant results. But 60 years after her death, the...
Complete order of Josephine Tey books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Josephine Tey was a Scottish playwright and author of popular detective novels praised for their warm and readable style. A physical education teacher for eight years, Tey became a full-time writer with the successful publication of her first book, The Man in the Queue (1929). She wrote some novels.
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant.
Aug 17, 2018 · Josephine Tey: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics. Revisiting Mystery's Reluctant Icon. August 17, 2018 By Neil Nyren. In 1990, the UK Crime Writers’ Association issued a list titled “The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.” Number one on the list was The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. It was a good call then, it’d still be a good call now.
Sep 7, 2024 · Josephine Tey was a writer of detective stories in the 1930s, 40s & early 50s. She was also a very successful playwright, and wrote plays under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot. She was born Elizabeth Mackintosh in Inverness, Scotland on 25th July, 1896.
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