LM101 Classic Mysteries: "The Daughter of Time", by Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey, is a clever, unconventional detective novel that turns historical mystery into a gripping intellectual puzzle. Laid up in the hospital and bored, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard III and is struck by how unlike a villain he appears. Grant begins a “bedside investigation,” digging through chronicles, letters, and historical accounts to test the centuries-old claim that Richard murdered his young nephews in the Tower of London. As he weighs propaganda, politics, and Tudor mythmaking, the case becomes less about a single king’s guilt than about how history itself is written—and distorted. Quiet, slyly funny, and deeply absorbing, The Daughter of Time transforms armchair research into suspense, inviting readers to rethink what they think they know and to consider whether the truth of the past can ever be recovered from the stories we’ve inherited.

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