This is what then starts the “mystery” part of the book. His well-meaning friends have supplied him with books, but Grant simply isn’t in the mood to lay there and read. Apparently, Alan Grant has been injured, and is stuck in the hospital with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with. This book, not being the first in Josephine Tey‘s Inspector Alan Grant Mystery Series, has the characters already knowing each other, and the action already known. While I found the novel interesting, I wouldn’t necessarily call it a mystery. We finished listening to this 1951 mystery book, and I was left with sort of a question – Is this a mystery or is this book a history-mystery? I’m not sure I would have picked it for either if those lists, but, of course, my opinion is just that, my opinion. What better mystery book to start with than the number one pick on the British list, and number four on the USA list! When I became aware of both the British listand USA list of the top 100 mystery books of all time, I decided that I wanted to broaden my mystery reading scope. I mentioned that my husband and I were listening to Josephine Tey’s Daughter of Time while on the road to visit my mother, brother, and Yellowstone.
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