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 novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant.
The first of these,
The Man in the Queue (1929) was published under the pseudonym of
Gordon Daviot
, whose name also appears on the title page of another of her 1929 novels,
Kif; An Unvarnished History. She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17t…
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