Josephine Tey's Books
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Man in the QueueInspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer—whom no one saw.A long...Read More -
The Daughter of TimeJosephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of...Read More
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Miss Pym DisposesMiss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym --...Read More
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To Love and Be WiseLiterary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he...Read More
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Brat FarrarWhat begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor’s life hanging in the balance.In this tale of mystery and suspense, a...Read More
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A Shilling for CandlesWas there anyone who didn’t want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead?Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but...Read More
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Franchise AffairRobert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet...Read More
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Authors on the Web
FemaleFirst.co.uk, April 18, 2013
...have so many favourite novels that it is hard to choose just one. Maybe The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey. Which authors do you most like to read? Eric Ambler, Simon Brett, Denise Mina, Stuart McBride, Philip Larkin, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha...
Gazette.net, April 17, 2013
...That’s what I liked to read,” Grimes said, citing the work of Philip MacDonald, Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey. Prior to writing her first mystery, Grimes had spent only a week in England, where “I soaked in some atmosphere and details of...
FemaleFirst.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester, Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale, Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, Reflex by Dick Francis and Aint She Sweet by...
Lubbock Online, April 15, 2013
...she advises other writers to consult — her bookshelf. She found volumes by Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey and Daphne du Maurier. She would follow a formula that has worked so well in many genres — write the kind of books you like to...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 11, 2013
...she advises other writers to consult — her bookshelf. She found volumes by Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey and Daphne du Maurier. She would follow a formula that has worked so well in many genres — write the kind of books you like to...
North Andover Patch, April 10, 2013
...and genre. Facilitator Kathy Phillips brings a wealth of mystery-reading experience to each discussion. The May selection is: Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time." Visit the Reference Desk to arrange to get a copy of the book. All are welcome. Website:...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 5, 2013
...- British author Upson surpasses herself with her mesmerizing and psychologically complex fourth whodunit featuring real-life mystery writer Josephine Tey. In part one, set in 1954 London, an American detective informs Scotland Yarder Archie Penrose that...
British Library, January 18, 2013
...the Road House murders (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) and the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning which inspired Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affai A series of crime events will take place alongside Murder in the Library, including Real Crime...
The Witness, January 16, 2013
...so a little perspective may help. During the forties and fifties, the Scottish novelist Elizabeth Mackintosh, writing as Josephine Tey, produced several highly regarded and influential detective novels, featuring Inspector Alan Grant, reserved,...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 5, 2013
...978-0-06-219543-2 British author Upson surpasses herself with her mesmerizing and psychologically complex fourth whodunit featuring real-life mystery writer Josephine Tey (after 2011’s Two for Sorrow). In part one, set in 1954 London, an American...
Herald Malaysia Online, January 3, 2013
...Our Lady of Lourdes Church. It aroused a lot of curiosity from parishioners and visitors to the church. Josephine Tey from the Archdiocesan Office for Human Development (AOHD) and six volunteers from Pusat Kebajikan Good Shepherd, Setapak, were on hand...
History Today, December 20, 2012
...the Hola Camp because their captors had behaved too much ‘like Africans’. Chris Hale Singapore Time for Tey Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time was my favourite book when I did A-level History and so I am delighted that it is being...
Keep Me Current, December 19, 2012
...their patrons, even those who don’t buy a thing, and can discuss everything from the classic Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, and Dorothy Sayers, to the “noir†writers, Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane to the “cozies†by M....
Seven Days Vermont, December 19, 2012
...Stewart Taylor. Not all the books are new: One of Christie’s recommendations, for example, is mystery writer Josephine Tey’s 1951 The Daughter of Time. “I reread this book as research for a future Book Jam post,” Christie writes. “It held...
