The Daughter Of Time: A gripping historical mystery

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After archaeologists recovered Richard’s skeleton and extracted evidence for DNA analysis, they sent the skull to an anthropologist and an artist who could use it to reconstruct Richard III’s face. Without any training as a historian, he begins his investigation with a child’s history book borrowed from a nurse.

Datos históricos, libros sobre la vida de Ricardo III y sobre su familia, opiniones diversas de los personajes, etc. While the book is dated, the subject matter is contemporary, seeing that Dickie 3 has just risen from his grave in a Leicester car park.Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is recuperating in hospital after an accident when he chances upon a portrait of Richard III. Josephine Tey and her two main characters, Alan Grant and Brent Carradine, take a forensic, Scotland Yard approach to the crime, and come up with the conclusion that most of the history books are wrong.

Probably because the author set herself the exceedingly difficult task of overturning a centuries-old conviction for one of history’s most infamous crimes, and then did an exceedingly good job in accomplishing her task. In the story, Grant suffers from the same problem that has made Richard so controversial for historians - there just isn’t a lot of solid evidence. He is an inspector for Scotland Yard – an active man, relying on his brains and his brawn to help him solve cases. Grant, who is well attuned to the subtleties and complexities of human nature, is disgusted by the black-and-white tale of malevolence and evil, simple and unequivocal, universally accepted and completely wrong.

Intrigued, Grant launches an investigation from his bedside, determined to prove Richard’s innocence or guilt.

To get ready for the conversation, we’ve compiled some introductory information on this classic mystery exploring the Princes in the Tower.

In short, Tey's book has been influential, and for good reason -- it's a fascinating journey through English history, and a grand tale of high-minded obsession to boot. Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with unravelling this most enduring of historical mysteries. Alan Grant, in Tey’s novel, similarly wounded in the line of duty, is an actual detective/inspector, from Scotland Yard, who becomes intrigued by a portrait and begins to study—obsessively—the history of Richard the Third. If the story is going to adhere to any sub-genre, it will have to be a procedural, whereby our detective slowly pieces together what made a good man snap and do something horrible.

It is only at that juncture that the rumours and speculative accusations start to be recorded in historical documents.It also points out that the princes were not reported missing by anyone until after the Battle of Bosworth Field, by which time Richard was dead and the princes were now in Henry VII's custody in the Tower. Mystery author Elizabeth Peters's novel The Murders of Richard III references Tey's book repeatedly.