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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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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