Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time

Samiha Tasnim

There isn't a murder type. People murder for too many different reasons.

 



....but perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer.

Melody Izard

Grant - who I am assuming is a regular character in Tey's books - is in the hospital recovering from broken bones sustained during a fall while fighting crime. While he is forced to lie flat on his back he distracts himself by trying to solve an old mystery. Did Richard III really kill his two nephews? 

My friend Ellen recommended this author, she didn't mention this book - so I intend to read one from the list she gave me. This one was just too academic for me.

Maryam Hasan

Mat Connor

Sonia Grgas

Laura Mauler

Pierke Bosschieter

Juliana

Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to him a gentle, kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer? With the help of other friends and acquaintances, Grant investigates Richard's life and the case of the Princes in the Tower, testing out his theories on the doctors and nurses who attend to him. Grant spends weeks pondering historical information and documents with the help of Brent Carradine, a likable young American researcher working in the British Museum. Using his detective's logic, he tries to come to the conclusion whether the claim of Richard being a murderer is a fabrication of Tudor propaganda, or was he really a monstrous hunchback. The Daughter of Time was voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.

The Daughter of Time

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