Josephine Tey: Daughter of Time
Mystery Book Group, October 2009
Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896? - 1952): known as Josephine Tey, and Gordon Daviot.
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, preferring to leave her readers vaguely uneasy, often disconcerted, at the novel's end. Those responsible for inflicting pain and suffering, even death, sometimes emerge completely unscathed. Others, wrongfully accused, find their lives unalterably changed by the unprovoked evil that has overtaken them.
The Alan Grant Mysteries by Josephine Tey
The man in the queue Pub Date: 1995 Series: Alan Grant mysteries, 1
Summary: A stabbing murder in the midst of a London theatre crowd sends Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant on a far-flung investigation.
A shilling for candles Pub Date: 1988 Series: Alan Grant mysteries, 2
Summary: Scotland Yard searches for clues concerning the cause of the death of actress Christine Clay among her friends and family and in her will.
The franchise affair Pub Date: 1998 Series: Alan Grant mysteries, 3
Summary: When fifteen-year-old Betty Kane accuses Marion Sharpe and her mother of kidnapping her and holding her prisoner in their house, The Franchise, their lawyer, Robert Blair, determines to prove that Betty is lying, in spite of her details.
To love and be wise Pub Date: 1988 Series: Alan Grant mysteries, 4
Summary: Detective-Sergeant Grant of Scotland Yard investigates the mysterious disappearance of Leslie Searle, an American photographer.
The daughter of time Pub Date: 1995 Series: Alan Grant mysteries, 5
Summary: A 20th-century policeman sees a picture of Richard III and reinvestigates Richard's role in the murder of the princes in the Tower using all available information about Richard's time.
The singing sands Pub Date: 1953 Series: Alan Grant mysteries, 6
Summary: Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant becomes involved in a murder-case investigation when he accidentally finds a dead young man and an enigmatic verse in a train.
Other titles:
Brat Farrar Pub Date: 1997
Brat poses as an heir to the Ashby fortune and becomes more involved in family affairs than he wishes.
The expensive halo: a fable without moral Pub Date: 1978
In this comedy of social contrasts, set in London during the heady 20s, rich, bored Ursula Deane falls for a penniless violinist whose sister becomes the object of the attentions of Ursula's brother, Lord Chitterne.
Kif: an unvarnished history Pub Date: 1969
Tey's first book, a novel originally published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot in 1929. A sad story of a young man's downward path in the hard years in England after WWI.
Miss Pym disposes Pub Date: 1998
A solicitous guest lecturer at an English women's college uses her own psychological theories to solve a campus murder case.
The privateer Pub Date: 1977
A fictional account of the adventures of Henry Morgan, focuses on his exploits as a privateer in the West Indies.
The Wench Is Dead (1989) Colin Dexter (Author)
While laid up with an ulcer, Inspector Morse decides to try to solve a murder case that is a century old.
The Fate of Princes (1991) P.C. Doherty (Author)
Francis, Viscount Lovell, is asked by his close friend Richard III to investigate the disappearance of the two princes from the Tower of London. The novel exposes the bloody politics of the War of the Roses and offers a dramatic and intriguing solution to one of the most baffling of historical mysteries, the fate of the young princes in the tower.
The Murders of Richard III (1974) Elizabeth Peters (Author)
Jacqueline Kirby is invited to a weekend costume party at a country estate where all the guests are impersonating King Richard III and his contemporaries. Jacqueline is asked to authenticate a recently discovered letter that may clear Richard of allegations that he murdered his nephews, the famous Princes in the Tower, 500 years ago. The antics of her fellow guests amuse Jacqueline until someone begins to play practical jokes that mirror the ways in which the actual historical personages died. Then, one of the jokes turns deadly serious and Jaqueline must solve a mystery in her own century as well as the one in the past.
White queen (2009) Philippa Gregory (Author)
A tale inspired by the War of the Roses follows the conflict from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
Rose for the crown (2006) Anne Easter Smith (Author)
Inspired by the life of Kate Haute, a tale set in medieval England follows her rise from a peasant-class family to the beloved mistress of the future King Richard III, with whom she bears three illegitimate children, endures a dangerous political war, and struggles against accusations about his murdered nephews.
To the tower born (2005) Robin Maxwell (Author)
Debated for more than five centuries, the disappearance of the young princes Edward and Richard from the Tower of London in 1483 has stirred the imaginations of numerous writers from Shakespeare to Josephine Tey and posited the question: Was Richard III the boys' murderer, or was he not? In a captivating novel rich in mystery, color, and historical lore, Robin Maxwell offers a new, controversial perspective on this tantalizing enigma.The events are witnessed through the eyes of quick-witted Nell Caxton, only daughter of the first English printer, William Caxton, and Nell's dearest friend, "Bessie," daughter of the King of England, sister to the little princes, and founding ancestress of the Tudor dynasty.
Sunne in splendor (1982) Sharon Kay Penman (Author)
A fictional account of the life and times of Richard III captures the pageantry, passion, intrigue, and, above all, tragedy of the War of the Roses, in the story of the last Plantagenet ruler of England.
The Last Plantagenets (1962) Thomas Bertram Costain (Author)
King Richard III of England (1452-1485) has been vilified in history and literature as a base, evil, physically deformed specimen who cruelly murdered his two nephews, buried them in the Tower of London, and usurped the throne. Thomas B. Costain reexamines the complex body of mythology that surrounds Richard. He chronicles the lives, achievements, lineages and alliances of Richard's Yorkist Plantagenet and Neville forebears and Lancastrian ancestors, whose lines descend from William the Conqueror. He outlines the bloody, protracted War of the Roses, which planted the seeds of Richard's later fall from grace at the hands of traitors within his own extended family. Analyzing contemporary correspondence, household and civic records, government documents and forensic evidence, Costain reconstructs not only the chronological events of the era, but also Richard's character and behavior, casting doubt on tales of the king's perfidy, and positing a more likely suspect in Richard's successor, Henry VII.
An Expert in Murder (2008) Nicola Upson (Author)
Traveling to London in 1934 to celebrate the triumphant final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, popular writer Josephine Tey is caught up by the murder of a fellow train passenger, in a case that raises the suspicions of Detective Inspector Archie Penrose. An Expert in Murder is both a tribute to one of the most enduringly popular writers of crime and a richly atmospheric detective novel in its own right.
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