The Daughter of Time

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.