Miss pym5/22/2023 ![]() Miss Pym Disposes, however, is a stand-alone novel that has both a sufficiently outlandish setting and an unlikely heroine. Most of her novels feature Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard, who is exactly the kind of likeable, intelligent and introspective detective we know from other great mystery writers. Her novels do the talking, and although she’s not the best-known female mystery writer, The Daughter of Time was voted the greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers Association in 1990. Not much is known of Josephine Tey, whose real name was Elizabeth Mackintosh, other than the fact that she was a private person who left work to care for her elderly father, never married, and left her estate to the National Trust when she died in 1952. I loved the book, and was given the entire collection of her novels shortly after (high fives and admiration for my husband). ![]() ![]() I had never heard of Josephine Tey until I was given The Daughter Of Time, her most famous novel, which must have found a few new readers this year when Richard III’s remains were identified in Leicester. ![]()
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