Now is the winter of our discontent... He turned the portrait over to look for a caption. On the back was printed: Richard the Third, from the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, artist unknown. So that was who it was. Richard the Third. Crouchback. The monster of nursery stories. A synony
The Daughter of Time
β Scribed by Josephine Tey; Alex Bell
- Book ID
- 108584701
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Series
- Inspector Alan Grant 5
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (who appears in five other novels by the same author) is confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Bored and restless, he becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III brought to him by a friend. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his face, and King Richard seems to him a gentle and kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer?
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Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (who appears in five other novels by the same author) is confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Bored and restless, he becomes intrigued by a portrait of King RichardΒ III brought to him by a friend. He prides himself on being able to read a personβs charac