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The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

Josephine Tey

Start date: October 22, 2018

Finish date: November 15, 2018

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Oct 22, 2018 Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: oldies-but-goodies, england, mystery

Okay, now I’m convinced King Richard III didn’t have his two young nephews murdered in the Tower of London in the late 1400s. *gives Henry VII the hard side eye*

In this classic mystery by Josephine Tey, a laid-up British police inspector tries to prove, just for his own satisfaction, that Richard has been unfairly maligned by historians. An enthusiastic young American, an actress, and a nurse help out with his research. The novel ends up having quite a lot to say about human nature.

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Oct 27, 2018 Elinor rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the perfect book cover, because this particular portrait of King Richard III by an unknown artist at the National Portrait Gallery becomes the basis for a murder investigation. Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant is lying helpless in his London hospital bed with a broken leg when he becomes intrigued with the portrait. Richard's face, he concludes, is not that of a murderer -- in spite of the widespread belief that in 1483 he had his two little nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London, a ...more

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Feb 02, 2018 Julie Durnell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: england-uk, mystery

Amazing! I do not know much on the Plantagenet/York/Tudor/Lancaster ancestry but thankfully my copy had two family trees at the back that were very helpful in keeping everyone straight. The research that went into this must have been a huge task. The thought process of a laid up police inspector attempting to unravel a centuries old murder was a thrilling tale!

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Feb 06, 2013 Diane Lynn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, mystery, richard-iii

Very interesting information about Richard III. Inspector Grant (Scotland Yard) is laid up in a hospital bed. With the aid of a researcher, Grant tries to discover the truth (daughter of time) of whether R III had his nephews in the tower killed. I kept thinking of James Stewart in Rear Window. Same sort of dynamic going on here. If the info presented here is correct, then I am convinced of R III's innocence. But, I'm sure there is another side to the story. Following along with Inspector Grant' ...more

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Nov 21, 2017 Neer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reads-17, mysteries, women-writers, history, downloads, brit-lit, classics, vintage-mystery, 1950s, pseudonyms

A post-modernist engagement with the past before post-modernism became popular in history writing.

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Nov 28, 2012 Laura Anne rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery, historical-fiction, british-isles

3.5 stars Not long after I lay this book aside, I will probably forget most of the historical facts and speculations presented. However, I really enjoyed the 'voices' of the characters. They sprang from the page, and I longed to be in the hospital room debating with them. It made me really think about the power of stories and how much we understand and know history. ...more

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Mar 28, 2023 Naga Sravika Bodapati rated it it was amazing

Quite a different form of unraveling a mystery. It is exciting at every turn and the reader also gets to play detective along with the fictional characters because all the facts and details are laid out right in front of them and only requires connecting A -> B -> C; Loved this read.

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