What a well-written book! A treat to read, both because of the writing and because of the subject matter. The facts marshaled were convincing and the modern-day characters were sympathetic. Deft touches of humor were scattered throughout, and though the form could have been awkward, it was not. I ke...
Trapped in a hospital bed, Inspector Alan Grant puts his overactive brain to the problem of Richard III--what kind of man was he, and did he really kill his nephews?
As a mystery story, I don't think it's all that great. But as a work of popular history and an explanation of how scholarship works, it's really clever.
[These notes were made in 1984. I read the 1982 printing of the 1951 Penguin edition:]. "Truth is the daughter of time," and the truth revealed here is a vindication of Richard III from the charges that he murdered the princes in the Tower. Proving this is the pastime of Tey's detective, temporaril...
It’s 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 Tey’s mystery. In Hitchcock’s movie, the photographer casts a panoptic gaze at the people he can see through the many apartment windows available from...
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