Daughter of Time. Singing Sands
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Daughter of Time. Singing Sands
14.99 €
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"Daughter of Time" is Josephine Tey's most famous novel. The Association of Detective Writers of England officially considers it the greatest English detective.
Can a bedridden Scotland Yard inspector solve a murder that took place almost five hundred years ago? Alan Grant lies in hospital with a broken leg and out of boredom decides to solve the mystery of the most intricate crime of medieval England - the death of two minor princes, which is blamed on the usurper king and the hunchbacked monster from children's fairy tales Richard III. The detective tries to figure out whether the king was as terrible as Shakespeare and Thomas More write about him. Like a true policeman, he begins his investigation with the question: who benefited from the murder of Richard III's nephews? Inspector Alan Grant takes an overnight train on vacation to Scotland. In the morning, upon arrival at the station, he accidentally discovers in a neighboring compartment the corpse of a young Frenchman Charles Martin and picks up a newspaper from the floor, which the young man read shortly before his death. The police do not consider it necessary to investigate the case, believing that the death of the passenger came as a result of natural causes, but Grant is sure that the police are wrong. He can't get over the poem about the singing sands, which Charles Martin sketched in the margins of the newspaper....
Can a bedridden Scotland Yard inspector solve a murder that took place almost five hundred years ago? Alan Grant lies in hospital with a broken leg and out of boredom decides to solve the mystery of the most intricate crime of medieval England - the death of two minor princes, which is blamed on the usurper king and the hunchbacked monster from children's fairy tales Richard III. The detective tries to figure out whether the king was as terrible as Shakespeare and Thomas More write about him. Like a true policeman, he begins his investigation with the question: who benefited from the murder of Richard III's nephews? Inspector Alan Grant takes an overnight train on vacation to Scotland. In the morning, upon arrival at the station, he accidentally discovers in a neighboring compartment the corpse of a young Frenchman Charles Martin and picks up a newspaper from the floor, which the young man read shortly before his death. The police do not consider it necessary to investigate the case, believing that the death of the passenger came as a result of natural causes, but Grant is sure that the police are wrong. He can't get over the poem about the singing sands, which Charles Martin sketched in the margins of the newspaper....
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Golden Age of the English Detective