The Daughter of Time - Softcover

Tey, Josephine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684803860 ISBN 13: 9780684803869

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1995

Synopsis

"One of the best mysteries of all time" (The New York Times)--Josephine Tey recreates one of history's most famous--and vicious--crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains--a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower.

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.

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Review:

The New York Times One of the best mysteries of all time.

Boston Sunday Globe The unalloyed pleasure of watching a really cultivated mind in action! Buy and cherish!

Book Description:

A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684803860
• ISBN 13: 9780684803869
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208