And until last week, very nearly the last King of England whose earthly remains were supposedly missing. The last King of England to die in battle. The title of the novel is taken from Bertolt Brecht’s play Life of Galileo, in which the eponymous hero observes: “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” Hughes termed it “not only one of the most important mysteries of the year, but of all years of mystery”. Anthony Boucher called The Daughter of Time “one of the permanent classics in the detective field”. Despite that, in the decades since it was printed it’s turned many of the idly curious to devout Ricardianism. A critical piece of evidence in this unabashedly Ricardian tale is the Bill of Attainder brought by Henry VII against Richard III, which makes no mention whatsoever of the princes-certainly suggestive to Grant of their being alive at the time.Ĭritics point out that this is a work of fiction. Without leaving his bed, Inspector Alan Grant investigates the evidence in the case of Richard III & the Princes in the Tower, arriving at a convincing solution by means of acute historical detection. Purchasing Info: Publisher’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository Format read: ebook purchased from Amazon and paperback purchased a long time agoįormats available: Trade Paperback, ebook, audiobook
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