MacKintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother. In five of the mystery novels, all of which except …

Josephine Tey was a Scottish playwright and author of popular detective novels praised for their warm and readable style. A physical education teacher for eight years, Tey became a full-time …

Josephine Tey was the pen name of author Elizabeth Mackintosh, who used to write her novels under this pseudonym. She was famous for writing mystery novels during the time of World …

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery …

5 days ago · Josephine Tey was a writer of detective stories in the 1930s, 40s & early 50s. She was also a very successful playwright, and wrote plays under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot.

Aug 17, 2018 · Josephine Tey was always an enigma. Born Elizabeth Mackintosh in 1896, she avoided the press, shunned most photographs, never granted interviews, and had only a small …

Dec 22, 2025 · This page gathers Josephine Tey's novels and Nicola Upson's Josephine Tey mysteries in order, with book summaries, series background and straightforward guidance on …

Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which …

Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death ...

English writer best known for the eight mystery novels she wrote between 1929 and 1951, the first as Gordon Daviot and the rest as Josephine Tey, but who first achieved fame writing plays, all …