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Touchstone, November 1995
Trade Paperback, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0684803860
ISBN-13: 9780684803869
Description
Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains -- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower.
The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters.
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Browse Inside The Daughter of TimeThe New York Times One of the best mysteries of all time.
Boston Sunday Globe The unalloyed pleasure of watching a really cultivated mind in action! Buy and cherish!
Belfast Telegraph, September 18, 2011
...innovatory, and the cracking in the present of a long-forgotten mystery from the past has many antecedents - Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, for one. But for an old hand at the crime genre such as Robinson, there are still fresh angles ...
Toronto Star Online, November 28, 2009
...recovered from his characterization as a cunning, conniving hunchback in Shakespeare's enduring drama – whatever evidence author Josephine Tey (in The Daughter of Time) and others might marshal to the contrary. While veracity is not the ...
Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2009
...armchair detective, folks? How about a locked-in investigator?" McCone's resolve is straight out of the playbook of Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time," and blinks of an eyelid allow her to sift through the information her friends and loved ...
Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2009
...by the way, shared by Ann Wroe in “The Perfect Prince: Truth and Deception in Renaissance Europe” and Josephine Tey in “The Daughter of Time,” though others, such as Desmond Seward in “Richard III: England’s Black Legend,” ...
Helium, May 17, 2009
...Josephine Tey is a well known writer in the crime fiction field, although I have to admit this is the first of her books that I have read. Her first book ...
Guardian Unlimited, January 18, 2009
...Yet to be filmed, the novel has been called a mix of Euripides, Dostoevsky, Ellis and Waugh. JD Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951) Classic armchair detective story, and one of the cleverest. Inspector Alan Grant has been confined to ...
The Independent, December 15, 2008
...academic, Una Pryor, who is researching Elizabeth's and Anthony's books. The 'researcher' approach is reminiscent of Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time. The Pryors' bereavements and betrayals don't illuminate the Plantagenets' troubles, or ...
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