Josephine Tey (1896–1952)
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Josephine Tey is a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Mackintosh. She was born in 1896 in Inverness and died in 1952. She is a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. She taught mehr anzeigen physical training at various schools in England and Scotland, but in 1926 she had to return to Inverness to care for her invalid father. There she began her career as a writer. In five of the mystery novels, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes. In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; The Franchise Affair was 11th on the same list of 100 books. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Four, Five & Six by Tey: The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands, A Shilling for Candles (1958) 140 Exemplare
Plays 1 : The little dry thorn, Valerius Dickson 2 Exemplare
Remember Caesar 2 Exemplare
The Complete Inspector Grant (unabridged) - The Man in the Queue, A Shilling for Candles, To Love and Be Wise, The… (2012) 2 Exemplare
Clarion Call 1 Exemplar
The Expensive Halo: A Fable Without Moral 1 Exemplar
Leith sands, and other short plays 1 Exemplar
Plays 3 1 Exemplar
Plays 2 1 Exemplar
The Pen of My Aunt 1 Exemplar
Valerius (in Plays by Gordon Daviot) 1 Exemplar
Sweet Coz 1 Exemplar
Three Mrs. Madderleys 1 Exemplar
Leith Sands 1 Exemplar
Ultimate Mystery Collection 1 Exemplar
The Staff-Room 1 Exemplar
Barnharrow 1 Exemplar
Reckoning 1 Exemplar
Sara 1 Exemplar
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Mrs Fry Has a Visitor 1 Exemplar
The Mother of Masé 1 Exemplar
Lady Charing Is Cross 1 Exemplar
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Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2022) — Mitwirkender — 38 Exemplare
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Brat Farrar | The Brading Collection | The Bride Regrets | Make Haste to Live (1950) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Tey, Josephine
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Mackintosh, Elizabeth
- Andere Namen
- Daviot, Gordon
- Geburtstag
- 1896-07-25
- Todestag
- 1952-02-13
- Begräbnisort
- verbrannt, Asche zerstreut
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- Scotland, UK
- Geburtsort
- Inverness, Schottland, UK
- Sterbeort
- London, England, UK
- Todesursache
- liver cancer
- Wohnorte
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- Royal Academy
Anstey Physical Training College (1915-1918) - Berufe
- teacher
crime writer
novelist
playwright
author - Organisationen
- Voluntary Aid Detachment
- Agent
- Georgia Glover (David Higham Associates) - estate
- Kurzbiographie
- Josephine Tey, birth name Elizabeth Mackintosh, was a Scottish-born novelist and playwright. She wrote some of the most acclaimed mysteries in the English language and her books, including the Alan Grant series, are still popular today. She attended the Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England and became a physical education instructor before publishing her first short fiction in periodicals such as the English Review. Her first novel appeared under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot in 1929. Her best known work, The Daughter of Time (1951), is still widely admired not just as a defense of Richard III of England but also as a study of the nature and practice of history writing itself.
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