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.

约瑟芬·铁伊，1897年生于苏格兰因弗内斯，就读于当地的皇家学院。之后，在伯明翰的安斯地物理训练学院接受三年训练，然后开始物理训练讲师的生涯。后来，她辞去教职照顾她住在洛克耐斯的父亲，并开始写作。

这位英籍女作家，是20世纪30年代以来，推理史最辉煌的第二黄金期三大女杰之一，也是其中最特立独行的一位。和她齐名的阿加莎·克里斯蒂、多萝西·榭尔斯都是大产量、行销惊人的作家，铁伊却穷尽一生之力只写了八部推理小说，八部水准齐一的好小说——是推理史上极少数一生没有任何失败作品的大师。