Josephine Tey (1896–1952) née Elizabeth MacKintosh was a Scottish author best known for her detective fiction, particularly The Daughter of Time (1951) which was chosen by the Crime Writers’ Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. She wrote six novels featuring her beloved crime solver Inspector Alan Grant, the first of which was published under yet another pseudonym Gordon Daviot. Three of her novels have been turned into films, including A Shilling for Candles (1936) which Alfred Hitchcock adapted as Young and Innocent in 1937.
