Josephine Tey re-creates 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 BarnardInspector 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.

約瑟芬·鐵伊，1897年生於蘇格蘭因弗內斯，就讀於當地的皇傢學院。之後，在伯明翰的安斯地物理訓練學院接受三年訓練，然後開始物理訓練講師的生涯。後來，她辭去教職照顧她住在洛剋耐斯的父親，並開始寫作。

這位英籍女作傢，是20世紀30年代以來，推理史最輝煌的第二黃金期三大女傑之一，也是其中最特立獨行的一位。和她齊名的阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂、多蘿西·榭爾斯都是大産量、行銷驚人的作傢，鐵伊卻窮盡一生之力隻寫瞭八部推理小說，八部水準齊一的好小說——是推理史上極少數一生沒有任何失敗作品的大師。