Josephine Tey

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1929
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Inspector Alan Grant

1 - The Man in the Queue (1929)
2 - A Shilling for Candles (1936)
3 - The Franchise Affair (1949)
4 - To Love and Be Wise (1950)
5 - The Daughter of Time (1951)
6 - The Singing Sands (1952)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Killer in the Crowd // The Killer in the Crowd

  • The Man in the Queue

    • / Police Procedural
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    Inspector Alan Grant - 1

    A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre. Didn't You Know?, London's favorite musical comedy for the past two years, was finishing its run at the end of the week. Suddenly, the line began to move, forming a ...

  • Richard of Bordeaux: A Play in Two Acts

    Richard of Bordeaux is a play by “Gordon Daviot”, a pseudonym for Elizabeth Mackintosh, better known by another of her pen names, Josephine Tey. The play recounts the story of Richard II of England in a romantic fashion, focusing on the relat...

  • A Shilling for Candles

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Inspector Alan Grant - 2

    Was there anyone who didn’t want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead?Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actres...

  • Miss Pym Disposes

    Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. Sh...

  • Brat Farrar

    It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving his pitiful note, `I'm sorry but I can't hear it any longer. Don't be angry with me, Patrick.' Now, it seemed, he had returned - just in time to claim the family inheritance. But if Patrick re...

  • The Franchise Affair

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Inspector Alan Grant - 3

    She had been kidnapped, beaten, and held prisoner the demure young girl claimed. And she denounced two highly respectable (if somewhat eccentric) women as her captors. Her story was damning: the attic room was so accurately described and there were t...

  • To Love and Be Wise

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Inspector Alan Grant - 4

    A witty and sophisticated mystery featuring bestselling author Josephine Tey’s popular Inspector Alan Grant, a beloved character created by a woman considered to be one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.Literary sherry parties were not Al...

  • The Daughter of Time

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Inspector Alan Grant - 5

    "One of the best mysteries of all time" (The New York Times) -- Josephine Tey recreates one of history’s most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by ...



  • The Singing Sands

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Inspector Alan Grant - 6

    The young man with the tumbled black hair and the reckless eyebrows was dead in compartment B Seven on the night train from London. The only message he had left behind was a verse--a strange unfinished poem that haunted Inspector Grant--that spoke of...

  • The Privateer

    The slave-pirate who plundered an empire! Spain's rule over the Americas was unchallenged- until Henry Morgan, privateer, set sail from Jamaica with his lusty, loyal crew... This is the incredible, true story of the former bondsman who bo...

  • Kif

    The boy stepped into the chill dark of the winter morning and closed the door quietly behind him. Quietly because the wife of Farmer Vass was apt to be unreasonable if she were wakened betimes. It lacked an hour till dawn and there was neither earth ...

  • Josephine Tey's Crime Novels

    Josephine Tey wrote ingenious crime novels with utterly believable characters, beautifully crafted dialogues and plots that delight and intrigue the reader. For many, these books are their favourite crime novels, it is just a shame she didn't wr...

  • Miss Pym

    Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel...

  • Come and Kill Me

    Republished - Original Title: Brat Farrar It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving his pitiful note, 'I'm sorry but I can't bear it any longer. Don't be angry with me, Patrick.' Now it seemed, he had returned -...

  • The Expensive Halo

    In this comedy of social contrasts, set in London during the heady 20s, rich, bored Ursula Deane falls for a penniless violinist whose sister becomes the object of the attentions of Ursula's brother, Lord Chitterne. Josephine Tey, who died in...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Josephine Tey has published 16 books.

Josephine Tey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Expensive Halo, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Josephine Tey, Killer in the Crowd // The Killer in the Crowd, was published in January 1929.

Yes. Josephine Tey has 1 series.
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