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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Josephine Tey
Four, Five & Six by Tey: The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands, A Shilling for Candles (1958) 143 exemplar
The Josephine Tey Collection: The Man in the Queue / A Shilling for Candles / The Franchise Affair / To Love and Be… (2023) 8 exemplar
Remember Caesar 2 exemplar
Leith Sands 1 exemplar
The Staff-Room 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
The Mother of Masé 1 exemplar
Ultimate Mystery Collection 1 exemplar
Barnharrow 1 exemplar
Clarion Call 1 exemplar
Reckoning 1 exemplar
Sara 1 exemplar
Rahab 1 exemplar
Mrs Fry Has a Visitor 1 exemplar
Lady Charing Is Cross 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Bidragsgivare — 44 exemplar
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Brat Farrar | The Brading Collection | The Bride Regrets | Make Haste to Live (1950) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Mackintosh, Elizabeth
- Andra namn
- Daviot, Gordon
Tey, Josephine - Födelsedag
- 1896-07-25
- Avled
- 1952-02-13
- Begravningsplats
- cremated, ashes scattered
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- Scotland, UK
- Födelseort
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Dödsort
- London, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- liver cancer
- Bostadsorter
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Utbildning
- Royal Academy
Anstey Physical Training College (1915-1918) - Yrken
- teacher
crime writer
novelist
playwright
author - Organisationer
- Voluntary Aid Detachment
- Agent
- Georgia Glover (David Higham Associates) - estate
- Kort biografi
- 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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Diskussioner
NOVEMBER Read - SPOILERS THREAD - Daughter of Time i The Green Dragon (juli 2023)
NOVEMBER READ - NO SPOILERS - Daughter of Time i The Green Dragon (november 2014)
Josephine Tey i British & Irish Crime Fiction (april 2014)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoilers) i 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (april 2010)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoiler-free) i 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (mars 2010)
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British Mystery (7)
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- Medlemmar
- 17,773
- Popularitet
- #1,239
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
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- ISBN
- 442
- Språk
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- Favoritmärkt
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Visst: detta är inte en klassisk pusseldeckare, utan något som närmat sig den moderna polisromanen betydligt. Vår hjälte, inspektör Grant, är inget stort geni, utan snarare en gedigen, kompetent undersökningsledare, dock inte utrustad med något besvärligare familjeliv eller alkoholproblem. Mordoffret är Christine Clay, en ung firad skådespelerska, som sökt sig ut på landsbygden för att slippa från världen, men som en morgon hittas drunknad på stranden.
Misstänkta är främst hennes man, en kollega, hennes avskydde bror (vars legat i hennes testamente är titelns skilling för ljus), samt en ung man som hon tydligen låtit bo i hennes stuga några dagar och som rört sig mystiskt under morddagen. Mycket energi ägnas åt en rockknapp som hittat i Clays hår, och den rock den eventuellt kommit från; ett något tunt bevis att använda mot någon.
Slutet kommer hastigt på en: även om mördaren visar sig ha ett någorlunda logiskt motiv, och det finns ledtrådar fint utspridda genom, känns det ändå något snabbt: från att fortfarande ha allvarliga misstankar i ett par tre riktningar så avslöjas många mystifikationer på något tiotal sidor. Välskrivet, men ingen ny favorit.… (mer)