“In 1990, the UK Crime Writers’ Association issued a list titled ‘The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.’ Number one on the list was THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey. It was a good call then, it’d still be a good call now.”
Josephine Tey (1896–1952) – born #OTD, 25 July
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1/5
https://crimereads.com/josephine-tey-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/
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“Gordon Daviot” was courted by Hollywood; “Josephine Tey” was ‘the crime writer’s crimewriter’; & “F. Craigie Howe” might have become a household name too if Elizabeth MacKintosh—the Inverness writer behind all three pseudonyms—had survived beyond her 57th year
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Josephine Tey’s Golden Age
Currently available on @BBCSounds – the Shedunnit Show discusses “Queens of Crime at War” with Josephine Tey’s biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson.
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3/5
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c4kk5s
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“Questions of identity permeate her novels. […] Masks and the identities they hide run through her work like the unifying thread in a tapestry.”
Val McDermid on how Josephine Tey opened up the crime novel for contemporary writers
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4/5
https://crimereads.com/val-mcdermid-dreams-of-a-lost-josephine-tey-mystery/
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Celebrating Josephine Tey
Val McDermid discusses Josephine Tey’s MISS PYM DISPOSES with Andy Miller and John Mitchinson in a collaboration between the Backlisted Podcast & Aberdeen’s 2021 Granite Noir festival
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5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omuqekhpM8A