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The Daughter Of Time
by Josephine Tey
A Golden-Age detective-fiction classic: laid up in hospital with a badly-broken leg and bored out of his skull, Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant decides to re-open possibly the most famous cold case in history--the murders of the two Princes in the Tower. As he applies his keen insight and years of experience to the case, he begins to wonder how much truth there is in the traditional image of Richard III. What he learns may upset everything we thought we knew...
I'd had this recommended to me many years ago, and only now have I managed to read it. (Thank heavens for Indigo's special offers!) I wish I'd read it sooner, but I'm glad that I've finally done it. This is as pretty a piece of detective fiction as you could ever wish to lay your hands on. The plotting is exceptional, especially considering that the "action" is confined to a hospital bed. I hardly wanted to put it down.
The characters are nicely drawn, if not particularly rounded, apart from Grant. The supporting cast move in and out of Grant's hospital room, sometimes only briefly appearing. Tey, however, is one of those writers who can illuminate a character with a few gestures, so the reader can easily picture them and get a good sense of who they are.
I suspect I may start haunting second-hand bookstores in search of more of Tey's mysteries. I'm certainly going to read up on Richard III.
I'd had this recommended to me many years ago, and only now have I managed to read it. (Thank heavens for Indigo's special offers!) I wish I'd read it sooner, but I'm glad that I've finally done it. This is as pretty a piece of detective fiction as you could ever wish to lay your hands on. The plotting is exceptional, especially considering that the "action" is confined to a hospital bed. I hardly wanted to put it down.
The characters are nicely drawn, if not particularly rounded, apart from Grant. The supporting cast move in and out of Grant's hospital room, sometimes only briefly appearing. Tey, however, is one of those writers who can illuminate a character with a few gestures, so the reader can easily picture them and get a good sense of who they are.
I suspect I may start haunting second-hand bookstores in search of more of Tey's mysteries. I'm certainly going to read up on Richard III.