Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time

A Richard III Cold Case, the Princes in the Tower, and a Scotland Yard Detective's Challenge to Tudor Propaganda. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 0,7 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 104 Seiten
EAN 9788028355180
Veröffentlicht Dezember 2023
Verlag/Hersteller Sharp Ink
9,80 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time is a brilliantly unconventional detective novel in which Inspector Alan Grant, immobilized in hospital, turns from contemporary crime to the historical "case" of Richard III and the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Through documents, portraits, and competing chronicles, Tey transforms archival inquiry into suspense, writing with elegant wit, sceptical intelligence, and a coolly ironic style. Published in 1951, the novel stands at a fascinating angle to Golden Age detection, replacing footprints and alibis with historiography, propaganda, and the instability of received truth. Tey was the pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh, a Scottish writer who also achieved success as the playwright Gordon Daviot. Her double life in theatre and fiction sharpened her sensitivity to performance, reputation, and the public manufacture of character-all central to this novel's revaluation of Richard III. Her own historical imagination, disciplined by a dramatist's instinct for motive and staging, helps explain the book's enduring power. This is essential reading for lovers of literary crime fiction, historical revisionism, and intellectually playful prose. It rewards readers who enjoy puzzles not merely as mechanisms of plot, but as challenges to cultural memory and inherited certainty.

Portrait

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952), a Scottish author best remembered for her mystery novels. She also wrote about a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays, many with biblical or historical themes under the name Gordon Daviot. In several of Tey's mystery novels, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, which was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time.

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