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The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey

Description: ISBN 0099430967 / Author: Josephine Tey / Genre: Crime / Thriller / At Scotland Yard, Inspector Grant has a reputation for being able to ... more

The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey ... pick them at sight. Now he is in hospital, knowing that no amount of good behaviour is going to make this anything less than an extended stay. Yet his professional curiosity is soon aroused. In a portrait of Richard III, the hunchbacked monster of nursery stories and history books, he finds a face that refuses to fit its reputation. But how, after four hundred years, can a bedridden policeman uncover the truth about the murder of the Princes in the Tower?

Newest Review: ... brings in a series of portraits, he is intrigued by one of Richard III, supposedly the murderer of his nephews, the Princes ... more

... in the Tower, who stood in the way of his accession to the throne, yet does not look capable of such a foul deed. His interest is further piqued when he begins research into the murders. The more he reads, the more he is convinced that Richard was wrongly accused of the murders of his nephews. Can Grant use modern forms of detection to find the answer to a crime committed five hundred years before? And if it wasn’t Richard, then who was responsible for the deaths of the two young boys? The characters To be honest, ...more

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The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey: The Princes in the Tower (792 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 11/10/06 (Very useful, 134 readings)
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Josephine Tey is a well known writer in the crime fiction field, although I have to admit this is the first of her books I have read. Her first book was written in 1929, but the majority of her books were published after the Second World War. As a contemporary of Agatha Christie, she does not seem to have maintained her fame; certainly her books are not easily available in High Street book shops or libraries. However, if this book is anything to go by, it is a shame. This story was an unexpected one; nevertheless, I was gripped from page one and will definitely be looking out for her books in the future. The story Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard has been ...

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