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[[File:richardiii_3387.jpg|frame|This being the face in question.]]▼
| title = The Daughter of Time
| image = richardiii_3387.jpg
{{quote| Truth is the daughter of time.}}▼
| author = Josephine Tey
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| genre = Detective story
| publication date = 1951
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This 1951 novel by [[Josephine Tey]] is one of the more unusual historical mysteries out there. Flat on his back in the hospital after falling through a trapdoor, Scotland Yard detective Alan Grant is bored. ''Really'' bored.
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A kind friend, knowing Grant's ability to gauge someone's character by their face, sends him a pack of postcard portraits of famous historical figures. Most of them Grant pegs accurately enough, but he finds himself fascinated by one man, whose expression is sombre and reminds Grant of a judge. He flips the postcard over -
It's [[
Practically the bible of the Richard III Society.
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* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Played with. Grant is a professional detective, but an amateur historian. Brent Carradine is a professional historian but an amateur detective.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: The jumping-off point for the novel is essentially that Richard III is too good-looking to have killed his nephews.
* [[Clear Their Name]]: What the investigation ended up being.
* [[Convicted
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Grant's verdict on a number of respected historians.
* [[Evidence Scavenger Hunt]]: Carradine does all the legwork, seeing as how Grant has broken his.
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: Grant questions why Richard ''didn't'' do this.
* [[The Summation]]: Grant writes out the pros and cons of the main two suspects in the boys' murders.
* [[Writer
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