The Daughter of Time
by:
Josephine Tey (author)
Inspector Grant begins the job of unraveling the centuries-old mystery of Richard III. Was he really the monster that history books made him out to be? Did he murder the two Princes in the Tower? Inspector Grant was ready to find the truth...
Inspector Grant begins the job of unraveling the centuries-old mystery of Richard III. Was he really the monster that history books made him out to be? Did he murder the two Princes in the Tower? Inspector Grant was ready to find the truth...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671821227 (0671821229)
Publish date: 1978
Publisher: Pocket Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: Inspector Alan Grant (#5)
It was a very unexpected read, I must say. When I joined the buddy read, I wouldn't have imagined I would have stumbled upon a story like this, almost experimental in the way it plays around with expectations, and at times doesn't take itself completely seriously. At the same time, I'm the kind of...
Series: Inspector Alan Grant #5 I had a short review all typed up and I accidentally closed the window. *Face palm* Oh well. I'm really glad that this one got chosen for the buddy read because I'd been planning to read it for a while and just needed an excuse. I'd heard good things about it, nat...
This weekend's "let's-forget-the-pandemic" buddy read wasn't the first time I read Josephine Tey's setting-the-record-straight-about-Richard III novel, The Daughter of Time, but it was the first time that I did so by reading it together with her play on the same subject (written under the name Gordo...
This weekend's "let's-forget-the-pandemic" buddy read wasn't the first time I read Josephine Tey's setting-the-record-straight-about-Richard III novel, The Daughter of Time, but it was the first time that I did so by reading it together with her play on the same subject (written under the name Gordo...
This was an excellent book - if there was one downside, it's that it is so revered and adored that my expectations were extremely high. It didn't quite meet them. Nonetheless, for a book that takes place entirely inside of a hospital room, what Tey did here is quite remarkable. And it's all that m...
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