by Margaret Kirk
I’D NEVER EVEN heard of Josephine Tey until four years ago. Which, when you stop to think about it, is pretty weird. Not only is she accepted as the inheritor of the ‘Golden Age’ crime writers, ranking alongside the ‘Big Four’ of Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh, but as Gordon Daviot, she wrote the nowforgotten Richard of Bordeaux which launched John Gielgud’s career. Oh, and she also wrote for Hollywood. All while living a mundanely private life as Elizabeth ‘Beth’ MacKintosh in 1930’s Inverness.