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Taylor, Pheobe Atwood


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(American Author)
- Author of the Asey Mayo books, and under the pseudonym Alice Tilton, the Leonidas Witherall books. The first Asey mayo book was The Cape Cod Mystery in 1931.

Citations:
1. 'Little Known Author Previews: 'World of Tomorrow'', by Rafael Tilton. The Armchair Detective magazine, Volume 16, Summer 1983, Number 3, page 305-309.

Book Reviews:
The Cape Cod Mystery
Death Lights A Candle

Tey, Josephine


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(British author)
- Creator of police detective Alan Grant in several books including The Daughter of Time>, in wich Grant proves that Richard III (king of England 1483-1485) did not murder his nephews in the tower.

Josephine Tey and other Mystery Writers:
Josephine Tey was the pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh. According to Robert Barnard, in his introduction to a new release of The Singing Sands, Agatha Christie used Elizabeth MacKintosh (a playwright as well as an author) as the model for the playwright Anthony Astor in Three Act Tragedy.

Citations:
1. 'Josephine Tey,' by Catherine Aird, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 3, April 1969, pg. 156-157.

2. Introduction to The Singing Sands, Robert Barnard, copyright 1996, Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.

Thomas, Ross


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(Author)
- Author of spy novels.

Citations:
1. 'Advice for Would-Be Spy Writers,' by Ross Thomas, Murderess Ink, edited by Dilys Winn, Workman Press, 1979.

Thomson, June


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(British author)
- Born in 1930.

Citations:
1. The Craft of Crime: Conversations with Crime Writers, by John C. Carr, 1983, Houghton Mifflin. Complete chapter interview.

Twain, Mark


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(American Author)
- Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Citations:
1. 'David (Pudd'nhead) Wilson: The Missing Figure In A Detective's Group', by Louise Saylor. The Armchair Detective magazine, Volume 13, Winter 1980, Number 1, page 8-11.

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