Maggie D. (mags) reviewed on 10/25/2013 + 29 more book reviews

I first read this book years ago, when I was devouring British detective fiction. Loved it then, love it even more now. This is the next to last in the series of five about Inspector Grant. Still, Daughter of Time is certainly the best of the lot intellectually, as the lead character is in a hospital bed and the detective work is about researching the character of Richard III, who has come down through the ages as a kind of monster: ruthless, deformed, nasty. Even Shakespeare tok up the notion of his being a hunchback with a withered arm and a huge grudge who became king by being ruthless and killing even his adolescent nephews. Is that all true? Inspector Grant spends his convalescence trying to find out. If you like this, I also recommend the last of her series: The Singing Sands (1952) which is, like this, less go-get-the-culprit detective fiction, and more character study.

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