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The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey and David Stuart Davies
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Overview
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Voted the top crime novel of all time by the UK Crime Writer's Association, The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey's last and most successful book. Inspector Alan Grant is laid up in hospital with a spinal injury and he's bored. Renowned for his ability to read a face, he passes the time looking at old portraits and one which particularly grabs his attention is of Richard III, the supposed arch villain who killed his own nephews, 'the princes in the tower' But Grant doesn't accept the face in the portrait is the face of a villain so he sets out to investigate what really happened. An unusual premise for a crime novel perhaps, but nevertheless an extremely clever and engrossing one, brilliantly plotted and written with enormous charm and erudition.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781529090352
- ISBN-10: 1529090350
- Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
- Publish Date: August 2023
- Dimensions: 5.98 x 3.78 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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