Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey was the pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh, a Scottish writer who died in 1952. She was best known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which began with The Man in the Queue in 1929. Her later novel The Daughter of Time, which investigates the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. She also wrote Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair.