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by Josephine Tey (Author) "Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling ..." (more)
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Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience. In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews. While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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While Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard looks for a way to make his convalescence in a hospital bed less tedious, his eye falls on a portrait of Richard III. Grant's schoolboy memory of the king who murdered his two nephews suddenly sparks another line of reasoning for the misdeed, and the reader is treated to a new answer to the killings in the Tower. All of the action delights Derek Jacobi, who reads as if he is sitting solo on a stage, speaking to an audience that has come to hear him solve this mystery. He talks to this audience. He talks to the other characters in the book. It is a complete performance. The publisher has enclosed a card with a listing of several generations of Richards and Henrys and Edwards, which will be helpful to listeners who are not driving as they listen. J.P. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a book to read and re-read (especially history lovers, Aug 22 2002
By Kathylene Privitera (Augusta, WV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughter of Time (Library Binding)
I first read this book 25 years ago and after re-reading it recently, I realize that the view of history as put forth by "Daughter of Time", is the view I have carried with me for the last 25 years. After reading the above reviews, I wanted to put my 2 cents in and say that this is the BEST of the Tey books. It is a mystery for history lovers and leaves an impression that other "light reading" does not. Josephine Tey is unfortunately gone from us, but this book remains a True Classic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Josephine Tey - A great "discovery", April 19 2002
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This review is from: The Daughter of Time (Paperback)
Never having heard of Josephine Tey, I purchased this book and another, "Brat Farrar" on the strength of the description.
I have since read several other of the Tey collection, and I find them wonderful. Not a "mystery" in the usual sense, this is a novel which contains a so-called mystery. In other of her works, her Inspector Grant follows more conventional lines of investigating crimes. If you like one of Tey's books, I think
you will like them all. I highly recommend them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of history's true mysteries examined, Mar 25 2002
By J. Carroll "Jack" (Island Heights,NJ) - See all my reviews
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What happened to Richard III's nephews? Josephine Tey takes a look at the tales of Richard, his nephews, and what happened at the Tower of London. Starting with the Richard of Shakespeare and Thomas More, Tey, (through her bed-ridden detective Grant) dissects the stories of Richard III and finds a few problems with the Richard III most people are familiar with. Whether this revisionist view of Richard stands up to scrutiny is up to those with more background in this area than me, but I thoroughly enjoyed Tey's portrayal of the search for truth in the face of legend.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Josephine Tey not up to the job
I have already written and submitted a review but it is not in your list of critiques so I don't feel inclined to write it all out again and would like to know why you haven't... Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. Strickland-clark

5.0 out of 5 stars super real mystery!
Confined to a hospital bed, Josephine Tey's inquisitive Inspector Grant is given a handful of portraits to study while recuperating. Read more
Published on Dec 27 2003 by Rebecca Brown

5.0 out of 5 stars THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN MEETS THE EYE...
This is a wonderful genre bending book...part mystery, part history. Written by Scotswoman Elizabeth MacIntosh, who wrote under the pen name Josephine Tey, it was first published... Read more
Published on Dec 8 2003 by Lawyeraau

4.0 out of 5 stars A Well-Deserved Cherished Classic
It took me too long to finally get to Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time. I gulp down mystery novels whole and I devour unreservedly every scrap of British royal history so... Read more
Published on Jun 21 2003 by Ricky Hunter

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, now what?
I found the build up more than the result here. The debunking of the legend of Richard III is, as the author herself admits, an old tale, well documented (and ignored) since at... Read more
Published on Sep 13 2002 by Jim Lingerfelt

4.0 out of 5 stars Expand your knowledge of history
A very interesting idea about using a modern investigative approach to a 500 year old case. I learned a lot about the
Richard III era. Read more
Published on Jul 23 2002 by Eduardo Bilbatua

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheated of feature by dissembling history?
"Truth is the daughter of time," according to the saying from which Josephine Tey took the title of her book, and time affords Tey's detective Alan Grant plenty of perspective on... Read more
Published on Mar 24 2002 by denis_abellio

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ricardian Argument, With Delightful Training Wheels
What thoughtful reader hasn't experienced Shakespeare's Richard III and wondered about the accuracy of the Bard's portrayal? Read more
Published on Feb 10 2002 by Paul Frandano

3.0 out of 5 stars yes and no
This is not really a mystery. It is a very cleverly written exoneration of Richard III. Tey and a great many historians today believed that whatever Richared was; he wasn't a... Read more
Published on Jan 27 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars History brought to life
I listened to the audio version of this book and was enchanted from the beginnning. Derek Jacobi is engrossing as Detective Grant. Read more
Published on Dec 23 2001 by Euthia Lee

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