Josephine Tey

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born

December 13, 1901 in Inverness, Scotland, The United Kingdom

died

February 13, 1952

gender

female

website

http://www.r3.org/fiction/mysteries/tey_butler....

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, History, Literature & Fiction

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Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25, 1896–February 13, 1952). Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. As Josephine Tey, she wrote 6 mystery novels starring Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant.

Another pseudonym was Gordon Daviot, playwright.

Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. The district of Daviot, near her home of Inverness in Scotland, was a location her family had vacationed. The name Gordon does not appear in either her family or her history.

Elizabeth Mackintosh came of age during World War I, attending Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England du...more

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Books by Josephine Tey

Average rating: 3.94 · 13,350 ratings · 1,519 reviews · 17 distinct works

	The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 5,550 ratings — published 1951 — 53 editions	My rating:
	Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 1,462 ratings — published 1949 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Man in the Queue 3.82 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — published 1929 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 1,306 ratings — published 1946 — 18 editions	My rating:
	A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 1,063 ratings — published 1936 — 26 editions	My rating:
	The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 1948 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 1952 — 21 editions	My rating:
	To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 1950 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Three By Tey: Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair, and Brat Farrar 4.08 avg rating — 78 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Four, Five and Six 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Josephine Tey

Inspector Alan Grant (6 books)
by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (Introduction)

3.92 avg rating — 10,442 ratings

Quotes by Josephine Tey

“If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.”
― Josephine Tey

10 people liked it

“The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”
― Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair

8 people liked it

“It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed.

Very odd, isn't it.”
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time

6 people liked it

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Polls

Vote for our April group read (1900-1940)

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (1923)

9 votes, 33.3%

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

7 votes, 25.9%

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey (1929)

3 votes, 11.1%

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1940)

3 votes, 11.1%

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (1911)

2 votes, 7.4%

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (1923)

2 votes, 7.4%

Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad (1902)

1 vote, 3.7%

Lost Horizon: A Novel by James Hilton (1933)

0 votes, 0.0%

27 total votes

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