Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 Feb 1952), a Scottish author. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Gr
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Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 Feb 1952), a Scottish author. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run
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