The Daughter of Time (eBook)

Historical Mystery (Inspector Alan Grant Novel)

Josephine Tey (Autor)

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2019
151 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
405-766455758-2 (EAN)

Infos

Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. 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. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer? With the help of other friends and acquaintances, Grant investigates Richard's life and the case of the Princes in the Tower, testing out his theories on the doctors and nurses who attend to him. Grant spends weeks pondering historical information and documents with the help of Brent Carradine, a likable young American researcher working in the British Museum. Using his detective's logic, he tries to come to the conclusion whether the claim of Richard being a murderer is a fabrication of Tudor propaganda, or was he really a monstrous hunchback. The Daughter of Time was voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.

Autor

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952), a Scottish author best remembered for her mystery novels. She also wrote about a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays, many with biblical or historical themes under the name Gordon Daviot. In several of Tey's mystery novels, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, which was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2019
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Schlagworte: Agatha Christie • An Equal Justice • Broken Glass • Character Analysis • crime writers' association • Dead Center • Dead Man's Ransom • Death Beside the Seaside • detective investigation • historical mystery • John le Carré • Medical confinement • mysterious portrait • Once Upon a River • princes in the tower • Richard III • Scotland Yard inspector • Sherlock Holmes • sleeping murder • tudor propaganda