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  • The Daughter of Time

  • Inspector Alan Grant, Book 5
  • By: Josephine Tey
  • Narrated by: Karen Cass
  • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (38 ratings)

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The Daughter of Time

By: Josephine Tey
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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Publisher's summary

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.

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‘Most people will find The Daughter of Time as interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays’ Observer

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Truth Will Out

I can see why she won so many honors for this book. And especially it’s message: trust your instincts and look at more than one source before believing anything.

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An excellent, engaging story.,

All of the characters, whether real or fictitious, seemed like actual, three-dimensional people rather dry characters

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Thank You Ms. Tey and Mom

My wonderful Mother gave me this to read when I entered grade school and it began my lifelong passion.
History and mystery, need I say more?
Great story, great reader. Fantastic.

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Did not finish

Rough. I really tried…started it over at least 3 times trying to give it a chance…not for me

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More documentary than novel

What a slog. Started off with promise but so very boring like a documentary, that I gave up about 2/3rds in. I rarely quit a book but simply could not go on!

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