In the last year of her life, when she knew she was dying, she avoided contact even with her closest friends because she didn’t want anyone to know. She never gave interviews, posed for publicity photos only under duress and managed to keep her private life a mystery. Elizabeth Mackintosh aka Gordon Daviot aka Josephine Tey was pathologically private. And where the woman is concerned, it will be a little. She left the genre in a different place from where she found it and she cracked open a series of doors for others to walk through.īut first, a little about the woman and her work. But to my mind, of equal importance is Tey’s role as a bridge between the classic detective stories of the Golden Age and contemporary crime fiction. Reading Tey for the first time is a surprise and a delight rereading her provokes the same response. Partly that’s because of the range and quality of the work itself.
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