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Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Alan Grant has a word for that: "Tonypandy." To find out what it means, read The Daughter of Time, which repays the reading many times over." - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Concentrate on the book's virtues as fiction and its exploration of the mystery and uncertainty and downright falsehood that too often are at the heart of our inquiries into the past.

"On and on the argument will go, as it had for centuries before this novel appeared, but when considering The Daughter of Time one does best to relegate historical nitpicking and even amateur sleuthing to the background.

"Miss Tey (.) makes hay of several more legends masquerading as history seldom can information have been so painlessly communicated as this ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable combination of whodunit and history." - J.W.Lambert, Sunday Times.

(.) The relative lack of contemporary action may put a few readers off this book but most will, I trust, like this reviewer, clasp it to their hearts as one of the permanent classics in the mystery field." - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review

"The result is a real bouleversement of schoolbook and encyclopedia "history", treated with compelling logic, precise scholarship and a cumulative intensity which makes the fictional, and even the factual crimes of 1952 seem drab affairs indeed.

Anyone who likes history and its more celebrated villains should be fascinated by Miss Tey's proof" - Orville Prescott, The New York Times (.) But as an investigation of modern documents it is fascinating. (.) As a detective story this isn't much. "(J)ust about the oddest detective story I ever came across.

L'action y est pratiquement inexistante puisque l'inspecteur de Scotland Yard est cloué au lit par une fracture." - Gérard Meudal, Le Monde

The fifth in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

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