Anyway, Grant and his history student, Brent Carradine, uncover lots of inconsistencies and reveal a very plausible account of what actually happened to the princes. My Review: Many's the Golden Age mystery that, viewed by modern eyes and filtered through epithet-intolerant lenses, doesn't hold up well. A friend of his, knowing how much Grant can see by examining faces, brings him some portraits to look at, hoping it will be an amusing distraction.

In a way, I could relate quite well to Inspector Grant as he was laid up in hospital with nothing to do but stare at the ceiling, bored out of his head. I came across this first in my teens and it was one of those books which stayed with me, as one of my favourite books in the genre ‘Crime Fiction’ Probably because it wasn’t about fictional crime at all (but more, later) – I had a kind of squeam about loving descriptions of bludgeonings and hackings – but was about a historical mystery – so it might be, (it is! While I gave up on understanding each and every royal relationship—you may have to be English to do that—Grant’s process is fascinating. With Titulus Regius enacted, the two princes represented no threat to Richard once he was crowned king.The Folger’s virtual book club, Words, Words, Words continues on Thursday, June 1 with a discussion of The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey . Grant impatiently (and correctly) dismisses the accounts of Shakespeare and Holinshed and Sir Thomas More as hearsay. Así pues, el inspector Alan Grant, postrado en cama, utiliza sus dotes detectivescas para ahondar en el pasado. The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Volume 1, Popular Press, 2000, p.

Featuring a fascinating introduction by Val McDermid and new illustrations by Juan Esteban Rodríguez, each copy has been signed by both the introducer and the illustrator. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to him a gentle, kind and wise man. Seamus Heaney’s deeply felt interpretation, widely acknowledged as the greatest Beowulf translation of modern times, is presented in parallel with the Old English verse in this fabulous Folio edition.Despite the age of the crime it is not a historical mystery of the Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael sort.

The novel's title is taken from an old proverb ("Truth is the daughter of time") which is quoted by Tey as the novel's epigraph.And so, with the help of an amiable American history student, Grant decides to investigate, using contemporaneous historical records, what actually happened to the two princes and how to reconcile the contradictory claims about Richard III's personality. They conclude that the princes probably remained alive throughout Richard's reign and were later killed by Henry.