Daughter of Time

Häftad, 2025

309 kr

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Inspector Alan Grant has made a career out of his ability to read faces. Laid up in hospital with a spinal injury, he passes the time studying portraits, one of which holds his interest above all others-that of Richard III, the villainous murderer of the princes in the tower. But that face, Inspector Alan Grant is convinced, is not the face of a murderer. In one of the of the most thrilling and original detective stories of all time, Josephine Tey sets her intuitive inspector on a unique investigation into a double murder committed at the close of Late Middle Ages.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-22
FormatHäftad
FörlagFonthill Media Ltd
ISBN9781804200544

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Josephine Tey, one of the greatest crime writers of the twentieth century, was born Elizabeth MacKintosh in Inverness in 1896. After her schooling, she attended a college specialising in physical training and went on to teach the subject at various schools in England and Scotland. In 1923 she returned to Inverness to care for her elderly parents and there took up writing. Under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot, she wrote critically acclaimed plays including Richard of Bordeaux, produced at London's Arts Theatre in 1932, and The Laughing Woman, produced at the New Theatre in 1934. Her first detective novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), introduced her character Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1936 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles under the pen name Josephine Tey. Her most famous and enduring detective novel, The Daughter of Time, was published a year before her death in 1952.