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by Josephine Tey (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (6 Aug 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009953682X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099536826
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,927 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 usurpers of England's throne? 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 Plantagenet really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.

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Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Daughter of Time, 29 Dec 2009
By Mr. Peter Armstrong "pierresnom" (Edinburgh, Scotia) - See all my reviews
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The first book I heard read on BBC Radio 7.
A real gem and a historical 'Who dun it' or
'Did he do it?'
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5.0 out of 5 stars A First-Rate Historical Mystery Based on a Still Unsolved Crime, 7 Nov 2009
By gilly8 "gilly8" (Mars, the hotspot of the U.S.) - See all my reviews
Josephine Tey was once a well known British writer of mysteries. I'm afraid she is now mostly forgotten---except for the classic "Daughter of Time." If you like history, if you like true life mysteries, or children-in-peril stories, in fact if you are a Shakespeare fan or a Tudor era afficiando or any of the above, you'll want to read this slim book. Written in 1951, close to the author's death, you will note that the language, and the descriptions of clothes, cars, and the way of life of the two "modern" young characters may strike you as dated and quaint, but somehow quite appropriate for this story.

An injured Scotland Yard inspector is in hospital with a severe leg injury---shades of Patterson's Alex Cross!---so his young female friend has to be his legs, eyes, and researcher, and they become involved in a "cold case" 470 years old. The mystery is: who killed, or, made to disappear forever, the two young princes who were legitimate heirs to the British throne during the bloody "War of the Roses"? Supposedly for their safety during the war the boys,aged 12 and 10 were put into the Tower of London, which was not simply a jail, but also a royal residence at that time. In the case of the young boys, at the culmination of the horrifically violent War of the Roses, which destroyed many of the oldest noble houses of England, the mother of the young princes is said to have asked their uncle, Richard III to bring them back to her. Their father the king was dead: Richard III was their guardian. At that time, so it said, he told her he didn't know where they were.

There was no proof of anything, and no bodies. For the next five centuries, down to the present, Richard III has been blamed for the deaths, probably mostly due to the play of Shakespeare: "Richard III", written under the auspices of the Tudor monarachy. The sister of the dead boys, Elizabeth of York, was married to the surviving male prince of the opposing side in the war: Henry Tudor, beginning the Tudor dynasty. Richard III who did want to rule, was killed in battle. Clearly, for the Tudor version of history, Richard III was the perfect culprit. He was villified for the deaths of these innocent children from Shakespeare's day to ours.

Tey makes this a first rate historical mystery, enjoyable for mystery fans, but also one to hold the attention of history buffs.


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The "traditional" view of this can be read in Allison Weir's "The Princes in the Tower", based on the (mostly Tudor) records of the time, which blames Richard III. In Tey's fictional book, the two young people are able to do research and find enough suspicious material that they doubt the story they have always been taught, and come to believe Richard III was innocent. In fact, there are quite a few legitimate historians who do feel Richard III was scapegoated by the Tudors who did not want two boys who were legitimate heirs alive to claim the throne after the war was over. Tey knew of this argument,and put the words into the mouths of her characters. (Centuries after the princes' disappearance, the skeletons of two male children were found under the stairs in an old part of the tower of London.)


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5.0 out of 5 stars The Daughte of Time, 20 Jan 2010
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An unusual murder novel covering one of history's great mysterys. Did Richard 111rd have the prince's in the tower killed. An excellent read.
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