The Daughter of Time

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Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeare's play. - a wickeduncle who murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England? Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is laid up in hospital with a broken leg. The novels he tries reading to pass the time all bore him, until a real-life mystery awakens his curiosity and soon turns into an obsession. Studying a portrait of the notorious Richard III he finds himself wondering whether such a man could really have been the ogre of legend, who murdered his own nephews in his greed for power. Enlisting the help of an American scholar, Inspector Grant is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery of the Princes in the Tower once and for all.

Born in Inverness in 1896, Josephine Tey was a Scottish author and playwright. Tey made her mystery debut with The Man in the Queue in 1929, the book that also introduced Inspector Alan Grant. The Daughter of Time, first published in 1951, is her best known and loved work, and in 1990 was voted number 1 in the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list published by the British Crime Writers' Association.

'As interesting and enjoyable a book as you will meet in a month of Sundays' - Observer 'One of the best mysteries of all time' - New York Times 'First-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written' - Los Angeles Times 'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' - Sunday Times 'One of the permanent classics in the detective field' - Anthony Boucher