The Daughter of Time

• Author : Josephine Tey
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1968

• Author : Elizabeth Mackintosh
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
• Release : 27 September 2014

Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot, were de pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896–1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays with an historical theme. In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British-based Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; The Franchise Affair was eleventh on the same list of 100 books.

• Author : Joséphine Tey
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 March 2015

Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to

• Author : Josephine Tey
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 06 November 2017

Voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990, Josephine Tey recreates one of history's most famous-and vicious-crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction. 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

• Author : Josephine Tey
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 08 January 2013

"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

• Author : Josephine Tey
• Publisher : CreateSpace
• Release : 28 March 2015

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 belong to 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.

• Author : John Thelwall
• Publisher : Broadview Press
• Release : 18 March 2013

John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses

• Author : Josephine Tey
• Publisher : CreateSpace
• Release : 04 July 2015

The Franchise Affair, is a 1948 mystery novel about the investigation of a mother and daughter accused of kidnapping a local young woman, named as one of Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It appeared that she

• Author : John Edwards
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 27 October 2016

The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country's orbit, making it a province of the Habsburg Empire and obedient again to Rome. These extraordinary

• Author : Sir Henry Rich
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
• Publisher : tredition
• Release : 06 February 2012

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of

• Author : Margaret E. O'Brien
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1891

• Author : William Dean Howells
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 18 July 2020

Reproduction of the original: The Daughter of the Storage by William Dean Howells

• Author : Elizabeth Hamilton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Elizabeth Hamilton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021