Plaque installed to Highland mystery writer

Josephine Tey's work was adapted for TV and film

A commemorative blue plaque has been installed at the home of a Scottish crime and mystery writer.

Josephine Tey, whose real name was Elizabeth MacKintosh, was the daughter of a fruiterer from Inverness. She lived from 1896 to 1952.

She wrote eight crime novels, including A Shilling for Candles - upon which filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock based his 1937 film Young and Innocent.

Writer Jennifer Morag Henderson, who wrote a biography of Josephine Tey in 2015 led a campaign for the blue plaque.

The tribute has been installed in Castle Street in Inverness city centre at the site of Tey's family shop and business.

The building, one of the oldest in Inverness, has been redeveloped by Highland Housing Association.

Inverness City Heritage Trust supported Henderson's campaign.

Henderson said: "It's fantastic to see the blue plaque in place. It looks really good."

Writer Jennifer Morag Henderson campaigned for the plaque

Tey's writing included mystery novel, The Daughter of Time, which BBC Radio 4's A Good Read described as "one of the most important books ever written".

A play called Richard of Bordeaux, which she wrote under the pen-name Gordon Daviot, ran in the West End in London for more than a year before transferring to Broadway.

But Tey shunned the limelight, and in later life lived in Inverness where she helped look after her widower father.

Before her writing career took off, she was a PE teacher and had worked mainly in England.