Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952), a Scottish author who wrote eight mystery novels under the name "Tey." In six of them the hero was Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant; the most famous of them is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in the hospital, has friends research reference books so he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower.
Mystery novels by Tey :
- Brat Farrar [or Come and Kill Me] (1949)
- The Daughter of Time (1951)
- The Franchise Affair (1948)
- The Man in the Queue [or Killer in the Crowd] (1929)
- Miss Pym Disposes (1946)
- A Shilling for Candles (1936) (the basis of Hitchcock's 1937 movie Young and Innocent)
- The Singing Sands (1952)
- To Love and Be Wise (1950)
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"Now, Conrad, here," said the old man, with a sort of pathetic.
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