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

by Josephine Tey

illuminating than Mr. Tanner. Much more illuminating. It was Grant’s belief that if you could

not find out about a man, the next best way to arrive at an estimate of him was to find out about his mother. So until Marta could provide him with

himself and not on police stories.” As far as he, Alan Grant, was concerned there was nothing so uncritical or so damn-silly as your Great Mind. As far as he, Alan Grant, was concerned Thomas More was washed out, cancelled, deleted; and he, Alan Grant, was beginning from scratch again tomorrow morning. He was still illogically fuming when

caught everyone on the hop. I’d like to know how the people concerned reacted.” “That’s straightforward and easy. I take it you mean what they did and not what they thought.” “Yes, of course.” “Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.” “What they did is all I want to know. I’ve always been a believer in the old saw that actions