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. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. The district of Daviot, near h Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17th century cavalry leader John Graham, which was entitled Claverhouse (1937).
The binding depicts the detective chasing after the ever-elusive princes and the endpapers are printed with the family trees of Edward III and Ralph Nevill, the 1st Earl of Westmorland.Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. Mark Smith returns to provide a series of beautiful illustrations that make clever use of shadows and silhouettes, bringing together the disparate worlds of Alan Grant’s hospital surroundings and 15th-century England. This edition is produced in series with our Josephine Tey collection. Assisted and hindered in turns by his tyrannical nurses, a glamorous actress and an American student, Grant unearths a surprising quantity of evidence. Intrigued, Grant launches an investigation from his bedside, determined to prove Richard’s innocence or guilt. He is unconvinced that the noble face looking back at him is that of a heartless usurper, capable of ordering his nephews to be smothered and their small bodies hidden under the very stones of the Tower.
Famed for his unerring ability to ‘pick a face’, Grant’s experience as a detective has taught him the kind of countenance to expect of a criminal. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is recuperating in hospital after an accident when he chances upon a portrait of Richard III. ‘Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings.’
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