The Daughter Of Time: A gripping historical mystery

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The Daughter of Time is the fourth installment of author Josephine Tey’s Inspector Allan Grant series — but you'd never know the novel was anything but a stand-alone when reading it.

But is the hunchback with such a sensitive, noble face really one of the world's most heinous villains? In Hitchcock’s movie, the photographer casts a panoptic gaze at the people he can see through the many apartment windows available from his rear window, and plays detective, with the help of the ridiculously over-dressed Grace Kelly. Dive deep into the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and access primary sources from the early modern period. In this book, Tey proceeds, with Grant laid up in the hospital with a job-related injury and ready to go mad with boredom, to give him access to a contemporary portrait of Richard.very skeptical of the idea that facial features infallibly reveal personal character, especially when those features are on a painted portrait that's as much the artist's interpretation as it is a representation.

Alan Grant, in Tey’s novel, similarly wounded in the line of duty, is an actual detective/inspector, from Scotland Yard, who becomes intrigued by a portrait and begins to study—obsessively—the history of Richard the Third. The novel's title is taken from an old proverb ("Truth is the daughter of time") which is quoted by Tey as the novel's epigraph. Featuring extraordinary illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and an exclusive introduction by Janina Ramirez, each of the 750 numbered copies has been signed by both contributors.Oh-so enjoyable, however, and unlike most murder mysteries it has great reread potential since it really isn't about whodunit. Central to her case is that Richard doesn't look like a killer in his portrait, but rather a kind, meek man who would harm a fly.

It was nice seeing what fun being part of a real life book club could be like, but I didn't join another one until I became a member of Goodreads.

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. Probably because the author set herself the exceedingly difficult task of overturning a centuries-old conviction for one of history’s most infamous crimes, and then did an exceedingly good job in accomplishing her task. Elizabeth Mackintosh came of age during World War I, attending Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England during the years 1915 - 1918. In 2012, archaeologists excavated a skeleton with spinal curvature and battle wounds near that spot in the parking lot. So don't expect to be on the edge of your seat- but do expect to be thoroughly entertained if this is a subject that interests you.

She uses a great device here – her detective, Inspector Alan Grant, of Scotland Yard, is laid up in bed, flat on his back – for weeks – in hospital, following a severely broken leg, falling through a trap-door, chasing a villain. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.And in this case, the Tudors are still thought of as great, but apart from Elizabeth ( whose survival while she was young was pretty much chance) the Tudors were vile. The story he comes up with, and the evidence he marshals in its favor, is vastly more convincing than the tales of More and Shakespeare, which have for centuries been accepted as fact.