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  Richard III Society, Josephine Tey
Though she was best known as a playwright, she continued at intervals to publish novels and short stories, and under the pen-name "Josephine Tey," wrote a number of detective stories in which a distinctive quality, usually historical, enhanced the ingenuity which is the main attraction of this kind of fiction.
"Josephine Tey" is derived from her mother's first name and the Tey surname of a distant grandmother in England.
Tey keeps the pace lively by the constant activities of contemporary characters, while Grant's "flashbacks" to the past through the reading of historical sources guides the reader stepwise through the collection of evidence, such as it is, and the reasoning process.
www.r3.org /fiction/mysteries/tey_butler.html   (5383 words)

  
 The FRANCHISE AFFAIR by Josephine Tey Touchstone - Bar Brews Gift Shop
And human emotions, which Josephine Tey understood as well as anyone, do not change over time, which means that THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR remains as compelling a psychological study as it had been when she wrote it in the 1940s.
Josephine Tey is remarkable for the broad subject range of her books and for fine writing.
Josephine Tey's 1949 THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR is frequently described as a mystery or a detective novel.
www.barbrews.com /r-69300/m-Books/b-69320/a-0684842564/Default.aspx   (1466 words)

  
 The Daughter of Time; The Princes in the Tower (Josephine Tey, Alison Weir)
Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time is an engaging and cleverly constructed work of detective history.
Tey is solidly in the revisionist camp: it was Henry VII who killed the princes rather than Richard III.
All the available primary sources are drawn on to provide a detailed account of the events between the death of Edward IV in 1483 and the battle of Bosworth field in 1485, along with a briefer outline of their background and aftermath.
dannyreviews.com /h/The_Princes_in_the_Tower.html   (295 words)

  
 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Detailed Book Review   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Josephine Tey (1897-1952), through the mind of her fictional Inspector Grant, re-opens the historical case of King Richard III, and his presumed act to gain the throne of England by murdering his two nephews.
Tey was not the first to offer what Grant renders as his conclusion; however, the novel covers considerable historical ground in less than 200 pages and makes a compelling argument.
Of special note is that many historians don't regard Josephine Tey's implication with too much seriousness, but almost all modern historians at least mention her when discussing England in 1483.
www.allreaders.com /Topics/info_25956.asp   (341 words)

  
 Josephine Tey's Classic Crime Novels - Miss Pym and Allan Grant Mysteries
She was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1896 or 1897 and died in London in 1952.
Her initial Josephine Tey crime novel, A Shilling for Candles, was published in 1936.
Tey also plays with the twinning of the two brothers Simon and Patrick, so alike and yet so different.
www.mysterynet.com /books/testimony/josephine-tey-mysteries.shtml   (740 words)

  
 Josephine Tey Biography
Josephine Tey is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh, b.
His detecting is not generally of the brilliant puzzle-solving variety, and Tey's emphasis is usually on characterization and motivation rather than setting up intellectual problems.
Indeed, Tey struggled with plots, often borrowing them from historical sources, but her literate and stylish writing is a great pleasure to the reader even if the mystery's solution is obvious or unmotivated.
pbpl.physics.ucla.edu /~yoder/mystery/tey-bio.html   (281 words)

  
 Amazon.frĀ : The Daughter of Time: Livres en anglais: Josephine Tey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries.
Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience.
In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews.
www.amazon.fr /Daughter-Time-Josephine-Tey/dp/0099430967   (566 words)

  
 Natasha Cooper on Josephine Tey
Her most famous novel is probably The Daughter of Time, in which it is the facade of evil that has to be removed from Richard III to reveal his fundamental goodness.
Her unmasking by the apparently Lackadaisical, easy-going solicitor Robert Blair is a gripping piece of storytelling that shows how effectively Tey could create high tension and a sense of evil without death or even physical violence.
The potential villain, a woman masquerading as a man, is saved from committing the ultimate crime by encountering - and accepting - the goodness of one of the other characters, which leads to a painful reassessment of her past and a renunciation of her desire for revenge.
www.twbooks.co.uk /cwa/cooperontey.html   (627 words)

  
 Josephine Tey Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Josephine Tey Info - Bored Net - Boredom
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.
She was born in Inverness, Scotland, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham, England, before becoming a teacher.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/j/jo/josephine_tey.html   (159 words)

  
 Josephine Tey, Sleuthing Into The Mystery of History (washingtonpost.com)
That novel was published in 1949 but its author, Josephine Tey, scarcely had written her last word on the subject.
She is a strange and fascinating case, a recluse about whom little is known, to the extent that no photographs of her are believed to have survived, if indeed any existed in the first place.
Between 1947 and 1952 she published -- now as Josephine Tey -- "Miss Pym Disposes," "The Franchise Affair," "Brat Farrar," "To Love and Be Wise," "The Daughter of Time" and "The Singing Sands," the manuscript of this last having been discovered not long after her death in early 1952.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A13181-2003Mar11.html   (1129 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Franchise Affair: Josephine Tey: Books
Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
Tey's skill shines through in her reflection of English society, in her passion for the study of faces and ultimately in her force of will which means that the mystery, rather than sub-plots or socially commentary, remains paramount at all times.
I also very much appreciated the fact that we, as readers, were kept utterly in the dark about the existence and testimony of the last witness; when the final revelations were made, it was as much of a surprise to me as to the assembled court-room.
www.amazon.co.uk /Franchise-Affair-Josephine-Tey/dp/0099452022   (928 words)

  
 Josephine Tey - David Higham Associates
She began to write full time after the successful publication of her first novel, THE MAN IN THE QUEUE in 1929 which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard.
Perhaps her best known novel is THE DAUGHTER OF TIME, in which she seeks to uncover the truth of the murder of the Princes in the Tower.
Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
www.davidhigham.co.uk /html/Clients/Josephine_Tey   (113 words)

  
 Dana Stabenow » How Josephine Tey Led Me into a Life of Crime
It took her twenty-one years of patient persistence to get me to read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time.
And yet, Tey’s hero prevails, and this in spite of the fact that he spends the entire first paragraph staring at the ceiling.
Tey takes the murder of the Princes in the Tower as her text, and in a completely convincing exercise of revisionist history exonerates Richard III, the man history has judged guilty of the crime.
www.stabenow.com /2003/08/29/josephine-tey   (960 words)

  
 Not as elegant as Josephine Tey - Telegraph
Writing a real person into a novel can be tricky and I suspect that the mystery writer Josephine Tey, an intensely private woman, might have been surprised at the role she is given in Nicola Upson's An Expert in Murder.
Fortunately the police officer in charge of the case is Josephine's old friend, Inspector Penrose, who is happy to keep her involved.
The 1930s setting, with its frequent references to the Great War which so profoundly influenced the characters, is carefully drawn and, like Tey's own detective novels, the book concentrates on the personalities, who are all connected in some way to her hugely successful, long-running play, Richard of Bordeaux.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/02/bocrime102.xml   (336 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Daughter of Time: English Books: Josephine Tey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Written by Scotswoman Elizabeth MacIntosh, who wrote under the pen name Josephine Tey, it was first published in 1951.
It is tragic that the author died in 1952 and was never to know the pleasure that this book would bring to generations of readers and that the Mystery Writers of America would ultimately rank it fourth among the one hundred best mysteries ever written.
Tey does well with dialogue and characterization, and has an intriguingly skeptical view of history (and historians).
www.amazon.de /Daughter-Time-Josephine-Tey/dp/0749310936   (1467 words)

  
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Elizabeth MacKintosh used two pen names during her writing career: Josephine Tey, who was also her Suffolk great-great-grandmother, and Gordon Daviot.
The first of the Josephine Tey mysteries, A Shilling for Candles, was published in 1936 and was eventually followed by Miss Pym Disposes in 1947.
Also included among the "Tey" mysteries are The Franchise Affair (1949), Brat Farrar (1949), To Love and Be Wise (1950), The Daughter of Time (1951), and The Singing Sands (1952), all of which are available from Collier Books.
www.fortunecity.com /millennium/sat/212/tey.htm   (841 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous — and vicious — crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard
The first of the Josephine Tey mysteries, A Shilling for Candies, was published in 1936 and was eventually followed by Miss Pym Disposes in 1947.
Tey traces the facts of evil Richard III; did he really murder the two princes in the tower, or was he the victim of malicious gossip?
www.powells.com /biblio/17-9780684803869-0   (748 words)

  
 Josephine Tey Biography
Josephine Tey's reputation as a detective novelist rests on eight mysteries.
Like her contemporaries in the genre, Tey portrayed a world in which crimes are solved; but she rejected the tidy conclusions characteristic of classic detective fiction,...
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25 1896–February 13 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery...
www.bookrags.com /Josephine_Tey   (138 words)

  
 The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Author: Josephine Tey / Genre: Crime/Thriller At Scotland Yard, Inspector Grant has a reputation for being able to pick them at sight.
Josephine Tey is a well known writer in the crime fiction field, although I have to admit this is the first of her books I have read.
Her first book was written in 1929, but the majority of her books were published after the Second World War.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/the-daughter-of-time-josephine-tey   (387 words)

  
 Becca & Bella
My personal feeling is that Tey is a master, fairly unreachable by most writers (I should start with The Franchise Affair if she were new to me).
Josephine Tey, Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952), is a remarkable writer.
Josephine Tey is new to me (thanks to my sister, the English teacher).
www.beccaandbella.typepad.com   (2455 words)

  
 Ex Libris Archives: Josephine Tey
Elizabeth MacKintosh, a Scotswoman, wrote mystery novels under the names Gordon Daviot and Josephine Tey during the 1930's, '40's, and very early '50's.
These days, much or all of her work is in print under her better known pseudonym, Josephine Tey.
Tey's characters are superb, and the writing is fabulous.
www.wjduquette.com /authors/jtey.html   (143 words)

  
 Tey, Josephine at DustyBookS - search for Josephine Tey books, used books, out of print books, rare books, books ...
Tey, Josephine at DustyBookS - search for Josephine Tey books, used books, out of print books, rare books, books online, book search, children's books, entertainment book, old books, childrens books, antique books
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 Amazon.ca: Brat Farrar: Josephine Tey, Carole Boyd: Books
Josephine Tey excels at the twisted plot, the kind of story in which the unreal seems so real that not only are readers puzzled by the meaning of Truth, but even the characters in the story seem a little confused.
I was completely hooked by Josephine Tey's superbly suspensful story set in the beautiful English...
One of greatest tragedies in the world of mysteries is that Josephine Tey wrote so few.
www.amazon.ca /Brat-Farrar-Josephine-Tey/dp/0745163203   (1204 words)

  
 The Book Den: Josephine Tey: It's Quality Not Quantity That Matters
Of all the writers associated with the Golden Age of Mysteries, the most tantalizing is Josephine Tey, not only because of her immense talent but because her career in the genre was so unfortunately brief.
She therefore leaves a body of work that is exceptional almost as much for what it suggests was yet to come as that which, in fact, remains.
I now think it to be my favorite Tey mystery…understanding, of course, that nothing could displace The Daughter of Time as my ultimate Tey favorite...indeed, one of my favorite books -- period.
thebookden.blogspot.com /2007/03/josephine-tey-its-quality-not-quantity.html   (448 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Brat Farrar: English Books: Josephine Tey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
von Josephine Tey "Aunt Bee," said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, "was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a cleverer back-room boy than..." (mehr)
One of greatest tragedies in the world of mysteries is that Josephine Tey wrote so few.
I love all of the books written by Josephine Tey, and I treasure and reread them all the time.
www.amazon.de /Brat-Farrar-Josephine-Tey/dp/0024894605   (687 words)

  
 My Shelf Confessions: Josephine Tey..
I recently received a box of mystery books, and one of the books I grabbed for myself before sending it on, was Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair.
I had honestly never heard anything about Josephine Tey so I was surprised to see how prolific she seems to be!
If I had to describe in one word Josephine Tey's writing and the two books I've read so far it would be: friendly.
myshelfconfessions.blogspot.com /2006/08/josephine-tey.html   (470 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Daughter of Time: Josephine Tey: Books
Written by Scotswoman Elizabeth MacIntosh, who wrote under the pen name Josephine Tey, it was first published in 1951.
It is tragic that the author died in 1952 and was never to know the pleasure that this book would bring to generations of readers and that the Mystery Writers of America would ultimately rank it fourth among the one hundred best mysteries ever written.
Tey's novel raises some interesting questions about the death of the Princes in the Tower, and about...
www.amazon.co.uk /Daughter-Time-Josephine-Tey/dp/0099430967   (1210 words)

  
 Josephine Tey
In response to I am a BIG Josephine Tey fan.
I am also a fan of Josephine Tey, and especially like "Daughter of Time;" own it in paperback and have listened to the "talking book" edition.
Josephine Tey's book, To Love and be Wise.
mysterycrimefiction.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/5949   (163 words)

  
 Josephine Tey : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk
Josephine Tey is a well known writer in the crime fiction field, although I have to admit this is the first of her books I have read.
About the Author Josephine Tey was born Elizabeth MacKintosh and has also published work under the name of Gordon Davies.
She has written several novels and plays, but sadly her distinguished career was cut short by her early death.
www.ciao.co.uk /Josephine_Tey__6716671   (750 words)

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