The Daughter of Time Characters

 The Daughter of Time Characters

Alan Grant - The main character, also a Scotland Yard detective who is bedridden from an injury in the line of duty.

Brent Carradine - An American from a well to do family, and a research worker at the British Museum.

Marta Hallard - A friend of Alan Grant and also the one who provides him with a mystery to solve while in the hospital.

The Amazon - Nurse Darroll - A nurse who is homesick at daffodil season.

The Midget - Nurse Ingham - the nickname for another nurse whose stature is deceiving.

Sergeant Williams - a co-worker of Alan Grant

Matron - he hospital's executive leader.

Mrs. Tinkerc- Alan Grant's maid and also someone who seems to choose to appear poor.

Surgeon - Alan Grant's surgeon, who has no other name, thinks Richard III had polio as a child and was a hunchback.

Richard III - Richard Plantagenet takes the British throne when his brother, Edward IV dies. 

Henry VII - Henry Tudor has a very weak claim to the throne and when he takes it after the Battle of Bosworth.

Elizabeth Woodville - Wife of Edward IV, Elizabeth is also the mother of Elizabeth who later becomes Henry Tudor's queen, as well as mother to the two boys who are supposedly murdered in the tower of London. 

Sir Thomas More - A famous British historian whose word has tended to be sacrosanct in England, but whom Alan Grant determines wrote about Richard III more from hearsay than from fact.

John Morton - Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of Canterbury, John Morton is a man of changeable loyalties and a bitter enemy of Richard III.

December 13 - The Daughter of Time

 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

"One of the best mysteries of all time" (The New York Times)—Josephine Tey recreates 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.