Instead, Tey shows detective Alan Grant discovering an entirely different picture of a man.

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Josephine Tey was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh, the daughter of a fruiterer from Inverness.

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So who was Josephine Tey, and why did this Highland woman have an interest in Richard III?

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Carol Hill worked at Great Tey Primary School, near Colchester, and was sacked for a breach of confidentiality.

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Tey was not a member of the Richard III Society, but she has certainly inspired more than one person to join - as well making countless readers question their own views of history.

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Although the Richard III Society has been around since the 1920s, it was Tey's 1951 novel that brought their ideas to a more general reading public - on the Richard III Society website, they dedicate a special section to Tey's novel.

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