![]() The binding depicts the detective chasing after the ever-elusive princes and the endpapers are printed with the family trees of Edward III and Ralph Nevill, the 1st Earl of Westmorland. Mark Smith returns to provide a series of beautiful illustrations that make clever use of shadows and silhouettes, bringing together the disparate worlds of Alan Grant’s hospital surroundings and 15th-century England. This edition is produced in series with our Josephine Tey collection. Josephine Tey The Daughter Of Time A gripping historical mystery Paperback Shop Now Summary A detective story with a very considerable difference. Assisted and hindered in turns by his tyrannical nurses, a glamorous actress and an American student, Grant unearths a surprising quantity of evidence. ![]() Intrigued, Grant launches an investigation from his bedside, determined to prove Richard’s innocence or guilt. He is unconvinced that the noble face looking back at him is that of a heartless usurper, capable of ordering his nephews to be smothered and their small bodies hidden under the very stones of the Tower. Famed for his unerring ability to ‘pick a face’, Grant’s experience as a detective has taught him the kind of countenance to expect of a criminal. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is recuperating in hospital after an accident when he chances upon a portrait of Richard III. ![]() ‘Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings.’ ![]()
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