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deliabarryThe Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
Detective Alan Grant is in the hospital with multiple injuries. To while away the time, he looks at some pictures of faces that a friend brought for him. When he discovers that the portrait of thoughtful-looking individual he pegged as a judge was actually of the notorious Richard III, he begins to investigate Richard's life and reign. What he learns changes forever his ideas about Richard in particular and history in general.
This is a wonderful book, one which routinely makes mystery readers' Top Ten lists. I first read it when I was in high school, but that copy has long since disappeared, so when I saw it in B&N last week I picked up a copy. I'm very glad to report that it's just as wonderful as I remembered. Tey (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Mac Knight) makes her case point by point. She had convinced the teen-aged me of her thesis the first time I read it, and she also convinced the older, much more cynical me as well. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who likes history, mystery novels, or both.
On another note, I was astounded this time by the description of Grant's convalescence. Weeks in the hospital for a broken leg, indeed! Things sure have changed since the 1950s.
by Josephine Tey
Detective Alan Grant is in the hospital with multiple injuries. To while away the time, he looks at some pictures of faces that a friend brought for him. When he discovers that the portrait of thoughtful-looking individual he pegged as a judge was actually of the notorious Richard III, he begins to investigate Richard's life and reign. What he learns changes forever his ideas about Richard in particular and history in general.
This is a wonderful book, one which routinely makes mystery readers' Top Ten lists. I first read it when I was in high school, but that copy has long since disappeared, so when I saw it in B&N last week I picked up a copy. I'm very glad to report that it's just as wonderful as I remembered. Tey (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Mac Knight) makes her case point by point. She had convinced the teen-aged me of her thesis the first time I read it, and she also convinced the older, much more cynical me as well. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who likes history, mystery novels, or both.
On another note, I was astounded this time by the description of Grant's convalescence. Weeks in the hospital for a broken leg, indeed! Things sure have changed since the 1950s.
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