Josephine Tey: Inspector Grant's Cases

Cover: 9788028355197 | Inspector Grant's Cases | Josephine Tey | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Inspector Grant's Cases gathers Josephine Tey's celebrated investigations featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant, a detective whose intelligence is as psychological as it is procedural. Moving from theatrical London and coastal resorts to literary circles, hospital rooms, and the historical mystery of Richard III, the volume displays Tey's elegant economy, dry wit, and resistance to formula. Written within the Golden Age of detective fiction yet often subverting its puzzle-box conventions, these cases privilege motive, perception, and moral ambiguity over mere mechanism. Josephine Tey was the crime-writing pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh, a Scottish novelist and playwright also known as Gordon Daviot. Her theatrical experience sharpened her ear for dialogue, disguise, and performance, while her independence from the more rigid traditions of interwar detection enabled her to create mysteries unusually attentive to character and social texture. Grant's reflective temperament mirrors Tey's own skepticism toward easy answers and inherited narratives. This collection is warmly recommended to readers who value crime fiction as literature: lucid, humane, and intellectually playful. It is essential for admirers of classic detection and especially rewarding for those interested in how genre can interrogate truth itself.

Über den Autor

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952), a Scottish author best remembered for her mystery novels. She also wrote about a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays, many with biblical or historical themes under the name Gordon Daviot. In several of Tey's mystery novels, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, which was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028355197
ISBN-10:	8028355196
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tey, Josephine
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 38 mm
Von/Mit:	Josephine Tey
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,996 kg