Plantagenet Mystery

follow-up to Andrew’s Sunday history-speak on Bosworth King ..

On Monday, I stumbled across an episode of BBC R4’s “A Good Read” with John Finnemore and Peter Hitchens reviewing ‘The Daughter of Time’ by Josephine Tey, her version of The Boys in the Tower, from Amazon:

‘Truth is the Daughter of Time’ is an old proverb. And The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey’s search for the truth about the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Was the hunchback, Richard III, the monster that Shakespeare and the history books have made him out to be? With real brilliance she conducts her search in the form of a crime novel, and her investigator is none other than her famous detective, Inspector Alan Grant, who starts to examine the centuries-old scandal.

My recent preference for audio is satisfied by the below, but there is an audible.com version narrated by Derek Jacobi.

According to wikipedia: The Daughter of Time (1951) (voted greatest crime novel of all time by the British Crime Writers’ Association in 1990) was her last published novel. But there have been subsequent ones penned by Nicola Upson, maybe a little better but none on the topic above.