Mystery Books

  • One Across, Two Down

          Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit

  • Strawberry Shortcake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)

    When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cosy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hanna

  • The Amateur

    A spy thriller classic from the author of The Company Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller

  • Plum Island

    The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peak

  • Windmills of the Gods

    She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest amb

  • The First Eagle

    For acting Lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers

  • Heart of the World (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)

    SHE'LL GO TO THE END OF THE EARTHWhen private investigator Carlotta Carlyle learns that Paolina, the teenaged

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Mystery Movies

  • Basic

    Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Taye Diggs, Giovanni Ribisi. John McTiernan's double-crossing, multi-layered military thriller a

  • Orphan

    The tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate and John, taking a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche

  • The Game

    Nicholas Van Orton is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and

  • Fallen (Snap Case Packaging)

    Homicide detective Denzel Washington must track down a serial killer he caught once before...and who was already put to death! Was

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Mystery Authors

Josephine Tey biography

 

 

Josephine Tey

(1896 - 1952)

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (25 July 1896–13 February 1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.

Mackintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English grandmother.[1] In five of the mystery novels she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant . The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower.

Information source: wikipedia