Josephine Tey
Paperback | Pages: 206 pages Rating: 3.93 | 22306 Users | 2912 Reviews
Mention Books To The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)
| Original Title: | The Daughter of Time |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Inspector Alan Grant #5 |
| Characters: | Elizabeth of York, Henry VII of England, Richard III of England, Edward V of England, Inspector Alan Grant, Cecily Neville, Marta Hallard, Sergeant Williams, Brent Carradine, Atlanta Shergold, Sir William Harrington |
| Setting: | England |
| Literary Awards: | Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Romans étrangers (tie) (1969) |
Narrative Conducive To Books The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower.Point Out Of Books The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)
| Title | : | The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5) |
| Author | : | Josephine Tey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 206 pages |
| Published | : | November 29th 1995 by Scribner (first published 1951) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Crime |
Rating Out Of Books The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)
Ratings: 3.93 From 22306 Users | 2912 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)
Its hard to read A Daughter of Time and not think of James Stewart, similarly laid up in Rear Window, which was produced only a few years later than Teys mystery. In Hitchcocks movie, the photographer casts a panoptic gaze at the people he can see through the many apartment windows available from his rear window, and plays detective, with the help of the ridiculously over-dressed Grace Kelly. Alan Grant, in Teys novel, similarly wounded in the line of duty, is an actual detective/inspector, fromPerhaps the oddest and best mystery ever written. Police Inspector Grant, flat on his back in hospital, solves the historical mystery of Richard III and the Little Princes in the Tower. I know, I know--sounds boring. But it isn't. A fascinating meditation on history, propaganda, prejudice and memory.
The title threw me a little, but this turned out to be an interesting and entertaining mystery about the murder of the two Princes in the Tower. No one knows what really happened, but popular belief is that their uncle, Richard III, had them killed to clear his way to become King of England. Josephine Tey and her two main characters, Alan Grant and Brent Carradine, take a forensic, Scotland Yard approach to the crime, and come up with the conclusion that most of the history books are wrong. I've
Once upon a time, in deepest darkest 2012, I was fortunate enough to be a law student at the University of Edinburgh, at just about the time when people were starting to make the big noises about whether a referendum on Scottish independence would be feasible. There was a debate on between a member of the department, and quite an eminent constitutional lawyer of whom I have long been in an intellectual sort of awe, so I went along.The topic of the debate was whether, if the Scottish Parliament
4.5Its an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you.A modern detective investigates on Richard III and the murder of the Princes in the Tower... I swear, sometimes it's like there are books written for you and you alone. (But since I am a generous person, you must can read it too.)
The Daughter of Time is an unlikely detective story. It's the story of a police inspector who, whilst laid up in bed because of a leg injury, is presented with a portrait of England's King Richard III (reigned 1483-1485) and comes to the conclusion that a man so genteel-looking couldn't possibly be the ruthless murderer Shakespeare made him out to be, because 'villains don't suffer, and that face is full of the most dreadful pain' (judge for yourself here). So with a little help from the nurses
This book had the potential to really engage me--it deals with Richard III and all the various permutations of the Yorkist, Lancastrian and Tudor factions in late medieval England, and it's not badly written at all. Unfortunately, there were so many little things in it which frustrated me that I was completely soured to the author's argument--that Richard III was innocent of the murder of the Princes in the Tower--by the time I finished reading.Though there are elements of her arguments with
0 Comments