Imprint: Arrow
Published: 06/08/2009
ISBN: 9780099536826
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £8.99
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Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king whose skeleton was famously discovered in a council car park, investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in the Tower, and his own death at the Battle of Bosworth.
Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty.
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors?
Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
Imprint: Arrow
Published: 06/08/2009
ISBN: 9780099536826
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £8.99
A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable
As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays
One of the best mysteries of all time
First-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written
Suspense is achieved by unexpected twists and extremely competent storytelling . . . credible and convincing