Josephine Tey's reputation as a detective novelist rests on eight mysteries. Like her contemporaries in the genre, Tey portrayed a world in which crimes are solved; but she rejected the tidy conclusions characteristic of classic detective fiction,...

Gordon Daviot was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh, author of one brilliantly successful play, Richard of Bordeaux, several others of intelligence but brief runs, and many which did not achieve stage productions. A Scotswoman born in Inverness,...