Mastodawn

https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/josephine-tey-crime-writer-and-imagined-detective/

Josephine Tey: Crime Writer and Imagined Detective

Josephine Tey (1896–1952) wrote classic crime fiction. Now she leads a fictional afterlife as the lead character in Nicola Upson’s CWA Dagger-shortlisted series of crime novels, starting with AN EXPERT IN MURDER – published by Faber Books

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Josephine Tey: Crime Writer and Imagined Detective

During her life in the first half of the twentieth century, Josephine Tey was a writer of classic crime fiction. In an after life she is the lead character in Nicola Upson’s crime novels, now a series of 10 books.

Faber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omuqekhpM8A

Celebrating Josephine Tey: Granite Noir 2021

Val McDermid discusses MISS PYM DISPOSES with Andy Miller & John Mitchinson in a collaboration between the Backlisted Podcast & the Granite Noir Festival

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Andy Miller, John Mitchinson and Val McDermid - Celebrating Josephine Tey - Granite Noir 2021

YouTube

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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.”

via CrimeReads – Val McDermid on how Josephine Tey opened up the crime novel for contemporary writers

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c4kk5s

Josephine Tey’s Golden Age: how WW2 made this Scottish writer want to write mysteries again

Currently available on BBC Sounds – the Shedunnit Show discusses “Queens of Crime at War” with Josephine Tey’s biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson

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BBC Sounds - Shedunnit, Josephine Tey's Golden Age

WW2 made this Scottish writer want to write mysteries again.

BBC

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/josephine-tey-mystery-writer/

“To study Josephine Tey’s literary connections is to draw out a different picture of the inter-war & post-war Scottish literary scene: one that foregrounds women, & draws out forgotten areas of popularity”

Jennifer Morag Henderson uncovers the mysteries of Golden Age crime queen Josephine Tey

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Josephine Tey: Mystery Writer - The Bottle Imp

Josephine Tey is best-remembered today as a crime novelist. Born in Inverness in 1896, Tey was the author of eight crime novels, of which six feature her detective Inspector Alan Grant. Her book The Daughter of Time, a unique exploration of the historical mystery of whether Richard III killed the Princes in the Tower, was […]

The Bottle Imp

https://lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-like-no-other-before-on-josephine-teys-the-daughter-of-time/

“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before” – @sarahweinman on the fiction of Josephine Tey

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“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

I wish I could remember when I first read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time—I must have been around twenty—but I certainly remember how much I loved it, which has only grown with every reread. I…

Literary Hub

“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) was born #OTD, 25 July