After reading Josephine Teys mysteries, I thought I'd post some of my thoughts about them.First the positives:They're free.They're well written in general.They're really good mysteries. The minor characters are mostly nice and interesting.To me, they're historic, though I know the author wrote and p...
I've been reading up on Richard III lately and came across various recommendations for Daughter of Time online. It sounded like it had everything that a big ol' history nerd/Anglophile like me would want: British detective, historical intrigue, mentions of pubs. I did find all of those elements in t...
"Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,And all their ministers attend on him."-William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene IIIRichard III is one of history’s most notorious villains. Thanks in large part to Shakespeare’s play, he is known as a remorseless usurper who murdered his young...
Here is one of the greatest mysteries ever written, told not with action, but with dialog. Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, laid up in hospital after falling down a manhole chasing after some baddies, becomes interested in what happened to the "princes in the tower", supposedly murdered by their reviled...
I've read a lot of mystery fiction. Certainly Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy Sayers are all favorites, but if I had to name my top favorite author in the genre, it would be Josephine Tey, and not just for this book. All are excellent--she sadly wasn't prolific, only 8 mystery novels...
Inspector Grant, laid up in bed, uses his powers of deduction to find out whether Richard III really was a villain or just miscast by historians. More interesting than it sounds. If you like Tey's more traditional mysteries, you'll enjoy this. I believe it was her last book.
Revisionist history presented as a sort of cross between a Socratic dialogue and Rear Window, this is an easy read for those who aren't great at reading nonfiction (I include myself in that group). I'm totally willing to buy into the portrait of Richard III presented here, but since it's technically...
This book was not at all what I had expected. After having this book pop up as a recommendation in several Plantagenet arenas, I decided that I had to have it. It is not, however, really a novel about Richard III in the traditional sense. I was disappointed at the outset of this novel when the first...
My continuing obsession with the fate of the Princes in the Tower led me to this book. The author makes a fairly convincing case for Richard III's innocence, but without citing sources, it's difficult to say how accurate it is, and I found myself wanting to argue a few points with her. But regardles...
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