Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III the hunchback king whose skeleton was discovered in a council carpark & who was buried in March 2015 in state in Leicester Cathedral The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews the princes in the Tower & his own death at the Battle of Bosworth Richard III reigned for only two years & for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle murderer of the princes in the Tower Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign & an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty 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 the Tudors? Grant determines to find out once & for all with the help of the British Museum & an American scholar what kind of man Richard III really was & who killed the Princes in the Tower