Josephine Tey (1896–1952)
Auteur de La Fille du temps
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Josephine Tey
Four, Five & Six by Tey: The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands, A Shilling for Candles (1958) 143 exemplaires
The Josephine Tey Collection: The Man in the Queue / A Shilling for Candles / The Franchise Affair / To Love and Be… (2023) 8 exemplaires
Plays 1 : The little dry thorn, Valerius Dickson 2 exemplaires
Remember Caesar 2 exemplaires
Leith Sands 1 exemplaire
The Staff-Room 1 exemplaire
The Expensive Halo 1 exemplaire
Leith sands, and other short plays 1 exemplaire
Plays 3 1 exemplaire
Plays 2 1 exemplaire
The Little Dry Thorn (in Plays by Gordon Daviot) 1 exemplaire
The Pen of My Aunt 1 exemplaire
Valerius (in Plays by Gordon Daviot) 1 exemplaire
Sweet Coz 1 exemplaire
Three Mrs. Madderleys 1 exemplaire
Collected Works: Inspector Alan Grant Novels & Other Detective Tales: The Daughter of Time, The Franchise… 1 exemplaire
The Mother of Masé 1 exemplaire
Ultimate Mystery Collection 1 exemplaire
Barnharrow 1 exemplaire
Clarion Call 1 exemplaire
Reckoning 1 exemplaire
Sara 1 exemplaire
Rahab 1 exemplaire
Mrs Fry Has a Visitor 1 exemplaire
Lady Charing Is Cross 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Brat Farrar | The Brading Collection | The Bride Regrets | Make Haste to Live (1950) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Mackintosh, Elizabeth
- Autres noms
- Daviot, Gordon
Tey, Josephine - Date de naissance
- 1896-07-25
- Date de décès
- 1952-02-13
- Lieu de sépulture
- cremated, ashes scattered
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Scotland, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- liver cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Études
- Royal Academy
Anstey Physical Training College (1915-1918) - Professions
- teacher
crime writer
novelist
playwright
author - Organisations
- Voluntary Aid Detachment
- Agent
- Georgia Glover (David Higham Associates) - estate
- Courte biographie
- 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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Discussions
NOVEMBER Read - SPOILERS THREAD - Daughter of Time à The Green Dragon (Juillet 2023)
NOVEMBER READ - NO SPOILERS - Daughter of Time à The Green Dragon (Novembre 2014)
Josephine Tey à British & Irish Crime Fiction (Avril 2014)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoilers) à 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (Avril 2010)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoiler-free) à 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (Mars 2010)
Critiques
The case is all wrapped up, everything fits, but Grant has a feeling. The ending is a complete twist.
Enjoyable historical fiction analyzing facts to analyze probability of Richard III's involvement in the death of his nephews.
Second time through. This time an audiobook. It has been over 10 years, so I was surprised again by the ending. I really appreciate that this book is really a study of all of the characters before there is any evidence of a crime very late in the book. Great to get to know all these folks. Loved the Nut-Tart!
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 51
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 17,834
- Popularité
- #1,233
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 646
- ISBN
- 443
- Langues
- 16
- Favoris
- 90
Author's real name is Elizabeth MacKintosh, and she also wrote as Gordon Daviot.