A mystery going back hundreds of years...
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is confined to bed and is bored. He is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III and wonders if such a sensitive face could actually belong to a heinous villain – a king who was believed to have killed his brother's children to secure his crown. Grant is driven to delve deeper and deeper to unravel the mystery of the man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower.
The Daughter of Time was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990, it was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the British Crime Writers' Association. In 1995, it was voted number four in The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list compiled by the Mystery Writers of America.