Title: The Daughter of Time
First published: 1954
Description: Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains—a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother’s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England’s throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower.

The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing’s most gifted masters.
Subjects: Alan Grant (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, Kings and rulers, History, Juvenile fiction, Hospitals, Polia, Large type books, Detective and mystery stories, Libel and slander, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Grant, alan, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Great Britain, England
People: Richard III King of England, Richard III King of England (1452-1485), Richard III King of England (1421-1485), King of England, 1452-1485 Richard III
Time periods: Richard III, 1483-1485
LC classification: PR'6025'A2547'D3'1954