Daughter of Time. Singing Sands.
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"The Daughter of Time" is the most famous novel by Josephine Tey. The English Crime Writers' Association officially considers it the greatest English detective story.
Can a bedridden Scotland Yard inspector solve a murder that happened almost five hundred years ago? Alan Grant lies in the hospital with a broken leg and out of boredom decides to unravel the mystery of the most complicated crime of medieval England - the death of two young princes, in which the usurper king and the hunchbacked monster from children's tales Richard III are accused. The detective tries to figure out if the king was as terrible as Shakespeare and Thomas More write about him. Like a true policeman, he begins the investigation with the question: who benefited from the murder of Richard III's nephews?
Inspector Alan Grant travels by night train on vacation to Scotland. In the morning, upon arrival at the station, he accidentally discovers in the next compartment the body of a young Frenchman, Charles Martin, and mechanically picks up from the floor the newspaper that the young man was reading shortly before his death.
The police do not consider it necessary to investigate the case, believing that the passenger's death was due to natural causes, however, Grant is convinced that the police are mistaken. He is haunted by the poem about the singing sands that Charles Martin scribbled in the margins of the newspaper...
Can a bedridden Scotland Yard inspector solve a murder that happened almost five hundred years ago? Alan Grant lies in the hospital with a broken leg and out of boredom decides to unravel the mystery of the most complicated crime of medieval England - the death of two young princes, in which the usurper king and the hunchbacked monster from children's tales Richard III are accused. The detective tries to figure out if the king was as terrible as Shakespeare and Thomas More write about him. Like a true policeman, he begins the investigation with the question: who benefited from the murder of Richard III's nephews?
Inspector Alan Grant travels by night train on vacation to Scotland. In the morning, upon arrival at the station, he accidentally discovers in the next compartment the body of a young Frenchman, Charles Martin, and mechanically picks up from the floor the newspaper that the young man was reading shortly before his death.
The police do not consider it necessary to investigate the case, believing that the passenger's death was due to natural causes, however, Grant is convinced that the police are mistaken. He is haunted by the poem about the singing sands that Charles Martin scribbled in the margins of the newspaper...
Author:
Author:Tay D.
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Detective Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:typographic
Dimensions:
Dimensions:21x13.5x2.6 cm
Series:
Series:Golden Age of English Detective Fiction
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-153881-1
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