The Daughter of Time-时间的女儿

作者：Josephine Tey(英国约瑟芬·铁衣)

书名：The Daughter of Time《时间的女儿》

中文简介：The Daughter of Time《时间的女儿》书名来自于谚语“真相是时间的女儿”。本书主人翁、伦敦警察厅警官格兰特因病卧床不起，医院中，朋友们送他许多书籍打发时间。一次他注意到了一副理查三世的画像，这位国王长期被描述为一个杀害两个亲生侄子的恶魔，然而格兰特却凭借直觉认为画中人更像是法官而不是罪犯。尽管护士等人坚持理查是个恶棍，他的兴趣已经被点燃了，开始向朋友们借阅各类历史书籍。理查的罪恶形象主要源头是托马斯·莫尔写的传记，然而莫尔本人并不是理查的同时代人。哈拉尔德小姐介绍了一个年轻男孩布拉特·卡拉丁，格兰特便让其代为搜集资料，卡拉丁就成了一位“学术工人”。

英文简介：Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains -- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower. The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters.