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Josephine Tey was a Scottish author of plays and novels, best known for her mystery series featuring Inspector Alan Grant. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Gordon Daviot and Elizabeth MacKintosh, and was a friend of actor John Gielgud.
Josephine Tey was the pen name of author Elizabeth Mackintosh, who used to write her novels under this pseudonym. She was famous for writing mystery novels during the time of World War I. She used to adopt another pseudonym of Gordon Daviot for writing interesting mystery novels.
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...
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- February 13, 1952
- July 25, 1896
- The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
- Brat Farrar.
- The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)
- The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction)
Josephine Tey was a Scottish novelist and playwright who wrote detective fiction under her own name and historical novels under a pseudonym. Learn about her life, career, and famous works such as The Daughter of Time and The Franchise Affair.
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Aug 17, 2018 · Learn about the life and works of Josephine Tey, the enigmatic author of eight crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Alan Grant. Discover her masterpiece The Daughter of Time, her historical thriller The Franchise Affair, and her other essential books.
Sep 10, 2020 · Antonia Fraser praises Josephine Tey's 1948 mystery of a girl's abduction by two women, based on an eighteenth-century case. She also explores the social context of the novel, the character of Robert Blair, and the author's life.
