约瑟芬·铁伊

约瑟芬·铁伊（1896年7月25日—1952年2月13日），原名伊丽莎白·麦金托什，别名戈登·达维奥特，英国著名推理小说家。

生平

约瑟芬·铁伊1896年出生于苏格兰因弗内斯，家中有两个姐姐。早年铁伊就读于苏格兰当地的皇家学院，随后，她在伯明翰的安斯地体育训练学院接受了三年的训练，然后她就成为了一名体育训练讲师。

但是在1926年，铁伊的母亲去世，而铁伊的父亲也身患残疾，所以她回到了自己的家乡来照顾自己的父亲，从此她开始写作。

1929年，铁伊以戈登·达维奥特的笔名发表了自己的第一篇小说《排队的人》。1932年，铁伊的剧作《波尔多的理查德》被搬上了舞台，这也使得她获得了巨大的成功。

1951年，铁伊发表了她最成功的小说《时间的女儿》，故事描述了一个卧床不起的苏格兰场侦探依靠着书本和信件与他的朋友一起解开了理查三世与塔中王子的真相。这本小说被英国犯罪作家协会（CWA）称之为世界上最佳推理小说。

1952年2月13日，终身未婚的铁伊在伦敦逝世。

著作

排队的人 (1929)

一先令蜡烛 (1936)

萍小姐的主意 (1946)

法兰柴思事件 (1948)

博来‧法拉先生 (1949)

一张俊美的脸 (1950)

时间的女儿 (1951)

歌唱的沙 (1952)

Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929). Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, from the same series, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run.

Life and work

MacKintosh was born on 25 July 1896 in Inverness, the eldest of three daughters of Colin MacKintosh, a fruiterer, and Josephine (née Horne). She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then, in 1914, Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. She taught physical training at various schools in England and Scotland and during her vacations worked at a convalescent home in Inverness as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. A youthful romance ended with the death of her soldier friend in the Somme battles. In 1923, she returned to Inverness permanently to care for her invalid mother and stayed after her mother's death that year to keep house for her father.

The curriculum for "physical training" included much more than athletics. MacKintosh used her school experience in Miss Pym Disposes when describing the subjects taught at the school, and the types of bruises and other injuries sustained by the pupils. When she graduated, MacKintosh worked in a physiotherapy clinic in Leeds, then taught in schools, first in Nottinghamshire, then in Oban, where she was injured when a boom in the gymnasium fell on her face. MacKintosh repurposed this incident as a method of murder in Miss Pym Disposes.

While caring for her father, she began her career as a writer. Her first published work was in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the name Gordon Daviot. She continued publishing verse and short stories in The Westminster Review, The Glasgow Herald and the Literary Review.

Her first novel, Kif: An Unvarnished History, was well received at the time with good reviews, a sale to America, and a mention in The Observer's list of Books of the Week. This work was inspired by a detachment of the 4th Cameron Highlanders, a Scottish Territorial battalion stationed at Inverness before the First World War and prominent in the city's affairs. It was an early indication of MacKintosh's lasting interest in military matters. Three months later, her first mystery novel, The Man in the Queue, was published by Benn, Methuen. It was awarded the Dutton Mystery Prize when published in America. This is the first appearance of her detective, Inspector Alan Grant. It would be some years before she wrote another mystery.

MacKintosh's real ambition had been to write a play that would receive a run in London's West End. Her play about King Richard II, Richard of Bordeaux, was produced in 1932 at the Arts Theatre, under the Daviot pseudonym. Its success was such that it transferred to the New Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre) in 1933 for a year-long run. The production made a household name of its young leading man and director, John Gielgud, who became MacKintosh's life-long friend. MacKintosh wrote of Inspector Alan Grant that "he had in his youth seen Richard of Bordeaux; four times he had seen it". She stated that she was inspired by Gielgud's performance in Hamlet and by the Royal Tournament. Two more of her plays were produced at the New Theatre, The Laughing Woman (1934) and Queen of Scots (1934, written in collaboration with Gielgud).