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

Josephine Tey

Start date: June 1, 2023

Finish date: June 30, 2023

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Feb 13, 2017 BrokenTune rated it it was amazing

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Richard III had been credited with the elimination of two nephews, and his name was a synonym for evil. But Henry VII, whose ‘settled and considered policy’ was to eliminate a whole family was regarded as a shrewd and far-seeing monarch. Not very lovable perhaps, but constructive and painstaking, and very successful withal. Grant gave up. History was something that he would never understand. The values of historians differed so radically from any values with which he was acquainted that he could ...more

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Mar 21, 2016 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Alan grant is laid up in hospital with a broken leg and a concussed spine acquired when he fell down a manhole chasing a villain in the course of his duties as a Scotland Yard detective. He is bored. It is only when Marta Hallard, an actress visits him and produces as envelope full of prints of portraits that he starts to take an interest in something again.

In with the pictures is one of Richard III and Grant decides from looking at the portrait that he cannot believe Richard was responsible for ...more

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Feb 22, 2016 Janet rated it liked it · review of another edition

I was a bit disenchanted with this book. Reviews were great, but I felt the characters lacked development and the plot was slow.

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Jul 30, 2016 Cricket Muse rated it really liked it

Richard III is not on my Shakespeare faves list of plays. All that Machiavellian plotting is rather disturbing. Murders and more murders. And to think it all based on a real evil villain. But was Richard really that evil? Josephine Tey doesn't believe so and sets up her Detective Grant premise that history got it mostly wrong.
What makes the plot intriguing is our protagonist, the intrepid sleuth of Scotland Yard is flat on his back recovering from a broken leg. Apparently they didn't hand out hy ...more

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Sep 07, 2020 Joanne rated it really liked it

For those of us who love classic mysteries.

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Aug 31, 2019 Serena rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, ebook, historical, audio, mystery

Why 5 stars? The book wasn’t what I expected at all. It should have belonged to the “History” aisle, not “Crime Fiction”. It was a most entertaining way to be educated on a key period in English history.

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