The Daughter Of Time: A gripping historical mystery

Product Information

If the story is going to adhere to any sub-genre, it will have to be a procedural, whereby our detective slowly pieces together what made a good man snap and do something horrible. The book introduced her detective protagonist Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard, who would appear in a further five novels: A Shilling for Candles (1936), The Franchise Affair (1948), To Love and Be Wise (1950), The Daughter of Time (1951) and The Singing Sands (1952). Highbrow sleuthing, perhaps, but fascinating to those nearer to history than the average mystery hound.

Había oído críticas muy buenas de este libro y me daba miedo que no superara las altas expectativas, pero lo ha hecho. Unable to leave his bed, and without all the electronic means we would have today to keep entertained therein, he is totally bored. Grant studies the painting and thinks a guy with such a lovable face just couldn’t have done those terrible things (and given his background as a detective, Grant knows faces).This book takes a different angle and offers another villain that may have had more to gain from the boys' death. The novel is listed as number one on the CWA's Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list and number four on the MWA's Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list. His eye catches on a portrait of Richard III, who has the reputation of a monster but the face, Grant thinks, of a judge. They also propose that Morton was the actual author of Thomas More's biography of Richard, suggesting that the incomplete manuscript found after More's death was an unfinished copy by More of Morton's lost original. The Daughter of Time explores the historical facts surrounding one of Shakespeare’s most enduring villains, King Richard III, and interrogates how stories are preserved, who gets to tell them, and what can be discovered when we reexamine history from a new perspective.

While the book is dated, the subject matter is contemporary, seeing that Dickie 3 has just risen from his grave in a Leicester car park. Being a big fan of Philippa Gregory, I much prefer her method of writing from the viewpoint of a contemporary character--much less intrusive. But I learned as much or more from the clearly presented facts and judicious reasoning that Tey lays out (and from the additional digging it inspired me to do on Wikipedia) as I did from any history book I'd read that touches the subject! Así pues, el inspector Alan Grant, postrado en cama, utiliza sus dotes detectivescas para ahondar en el pasado. I hadn't ever totally believed the story about Richard getting his nephews killed ( I think I must be one of the few people who has never seen Shakespeare's malign play about him, either).Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485, one of the most reviled and vilified characters in all of history. When this book was written, Tey was already a big name in the mystery genre, on both sides of the Atlantic, but especially in her native England.