Josephine Tey

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Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey was one of many pseudonym

Pseudonym

A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin....
s used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25 1896–February 13 1952) a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
author

Author

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best known for her mystery novels.

Life and work
She was born in Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a City status in the United Kingdom in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland Council areas of Scotland, and it is promoted as the capital of the Scottish Highlands....
, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham

Birmingham

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, before becoming a teacher. However, her literary career began only when she was forced to give up regular work in order to care for her invalid father.

In five of the mystery novels she wrote under the name of Josephine Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard

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Josephine Tey was one of many pseudonym

Pseudonym

Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
author

Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
best known for her mystery novels.

Life and work

She was born in Inverness

Inverness

Birmingham

Scotland Yard

New Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City of London, which is covered by the City of London Police....
Inspector Alan Grant (he also appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair
The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair is a 1948 in literature mystery novel by Josephine Tey, in which a small-town lawyer is called on to defend two women accused of kidnapping....
, but only as a minor character). The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time
The Daughter of Time

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 novel by Josephine Tey, often referenced by "supporters" of King Richard III of England, despite the fact that it never claims to be other than fiction....
, in which Grant, laid up in the hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England

Richard III of England

Richard III was List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England of Kingdom of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty....
murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower

Princes in the Tower

The Princes in the Tower, Edward V of England and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York , were two sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville....
.

The Daughter of Time was the last of her books published during her lifetime. The Franchise Affair
The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair is a 1948 in literature mystery novel by Josephine Tey, in which a small-town lawyer is called on to defend two women accused of kidnapping....
also has a historical context: although set in the 1940s, it is based on the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning

Elizabeth Canning

Elizabeth Canning was an England who claimed that she had been abducted and her kidnappers tried to force her to become a prostitute. She ended up being convicted for perjury....
.

A further crime novel, The Singing Sands, was found in her papers and published posthumously. After her death, proceeds from her estate, including royalties from her books, were assigned to the National Trust

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales and Northern Ireland....
.

As Gordon Daviot she wrote about a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays, but only four of them were produced during her lifetime. Richard of Bordeaux
Richard of Bordeaux (play)

Richard of Bordeaux is a play by Gordon Daviot that depicts the story of Richard II of England in a romantic fashion, emphasizing the relationship between Richard II of England and his queen Anne of Bohemia....
was particularly successful, running for fourteen months and starring John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
.

Tey appears as a main character in An Expert In Murder
An Expert in Murder

An Expert in Murder is a novel by Nicola Upson, published on March 6, 2008.PlotThe novel is set in the London theatres of the 1930s....
(Faber 2008) by Nicola Upson, a detective story woven around the original production of Richard of Bordeaux. Upson intends a series of similar mysteries.

Mystery novels by Tey

The Man in the Queue [or Killer in the Crowd] (1929)
A Shilling for Candles (1936) (the basis of Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
's 1937 movie Young and Innocent)
Miss Pym Disposes (1946)
The Franchise Affair
The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair is a 1948 in literature mystery novel by Josephine Tey, in which a small-town lawyer is called on to defend two women accused of kidnapping....
(1948) (filmed in 1950 starring Michael Denison
Michael Denison

John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison Order of the British Empire was a noted England actor....
and Dulcie Gray
Dulcie Gray

Dulcie Gray, Order of the British Empire, also known as Dulcie Savage, was born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya on 20 November 1919, and is a veteran United Kingdom actress of the stage and screen....
)
Brat Farrar
Brat Farrar

Brat Farrar is a 1949 crime novel by Josephine Tey.Plot summaryThe story centers around the Ashbys, an English country-squire family....
[or Come and Kill Me] (1949)
To Love and Be Wise (1950)
The Daughter of Time
The Daughter of Time

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 novel by Josephine Tey, often referenced by "supporters" of King Richard III of England, despite the fact that it never claims to be other than fiction....
(1951)
The Singing Sands (1952)

Josephine Tey

Life and work

Mystery novels by Tey

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