The Daughter of Time

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Josephine Tey was one of two pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896–1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels and her play Richard of Bordeaux.

She was born in Inverness, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham before becoming a teacher. Her literary career began when she was forced to give up regular work in order to care for her invalid father.

Ms Tey 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. She died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.

Josephine Tey appears as a main character in An Expert in Murder (Faber 2008) by Nicola Upson, a detective story woven around the original production of Richard of Bordeaux.

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