“In 1990, the UK CWA issued a list titled ‘The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.’ Number one on the list was THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey. It was a good call then, it’d still be a good call now.”
Josephine Tey (1896–1952) was born #OTD, 25 July – a 🎂 🧵
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https://crimereads.com/josephine-tey-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/
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Josephine Tey’s Golden Age
Available on YouTube: the fourth episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six-part Shedunnit series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War. Caroline Crampton discusses Josephine Tey with Tey’s biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwLqXm4SH6Q
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