Status
Available
Call number
Series
Publication
Scribner (1995), Edition: Reprint, 206 pages
Description
The fifth book in the Inspector Alan Grant series. The Daughter of Time remains Josephine Tey's most enduringly popular mystery. Can a bed-ridden 20th-century detective solve a 500-year-old crime? The murder of the young princes in the Tower of London in 1483 is the most notorious crime in English royal history. The prime suspect has long been Richard III, portrayed as a monster by everyone from early propagandists writing immediately after Richard's death to Shakespeare himself. In this, the book repeatedly voted one of the best mystery novels of all time, queen of Golden Age crime Josephine Tey tackles the question of Richard's guilt via her own celebrated detective.
Subjects
Awards
Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories (1951 — 1951)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1951
Physical description
8 inches
ISBN
0684803860 / 9780684803869
LCC
PR6025.A2547