Editing Josephine Tey (section)

== Reception and legacy ==
In 1990, ''The Daughter of Time'' was selected by the [[Crime Writers' Association]] as the [[The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time|greatest crime novel of all time]]; ''The Franchise Affair'' was 11th on the same list of 100 books.<ref name=LTlist>{{cite web |title=Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Top+100+Crime+Novels+of+All+Time+-+UK+Crime+Writers%27+Association |website=Library Thing |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref>

In 2015, [[Val McDermid]] argued that Tey "cracked open the door" for later writers such as [[Patricia Highsmith]] and [[Ruth Rendell]] to explore the darker side of humanity, creating a bridge between the [[Golden Age of Detective Fiction]] and contemporary crime novels, because "Tey opened up the possibility of unconventional secrets. Homosexual desire, cross-dressing, sexual perversion – they were all hinted at, glimpsed in the shadows as a door closed or a curtain twitched. Tey was never vulgar nor titillating.... Nevertheless, her world revealed a different set of psychological motivations."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/val-mcdermid-the-brillliant-unconventional-crime-novels-of-josephine-tey/|title=Val McDermid: the brillliant unconventional crime novels of Josephine Tey|last=McDermid|first=Val|date=16 July 2015|work=The Telegraph|access-date=18 February 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> In 2019, Evie Jeffrey discussed Tey's engagement with capital punishment debates in ''[[A Shilling for Candles]]'' and ''To Love and Be Wise''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jeffrey |first1=Evie |title=Capital Punishment and Women in the British Police Procedural: Josephine Tey's ''A Shilling for Candles'' and ''[[To Love and Be Wise]]'' |journal=Clues: A Journal of Detection |date=2019 |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=40–50}}</ref>