Josephine Tey, author of The Daughter of Time and The Franchise Affair, was born Elizabeth MacKintosh in Inverness in Scotland in 1896. She trained and worked as a teacher before returning to her family home to look after her elderly parents. It was there that she took up writing. Although she described her crime writing, written under the pen name Josephine Tey, as ‘my weekly knitting’ she was and is recognized as a major writer of the Golden Age of Crime writing. She was also successful as a novelist and playwright, writing under the name of Gordon Daviot. Her plays were performed in London and on Broadway. A fiercely private woman, she died at her sister’s home in 1952.
La famosa actriz Christine Clay aparece muerta en una aislada playa de la costa británica. Un nuevo caso para el inspector Alan Grant, el gran personaje de Josephine Tey. En una playa aislada cerca del pequeño pueblo de Westover, el cuerpo sin vida de Christine Clay, famosa actriz...
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