The daughter of time. Singing sands. Tai D.

“The Daughter of Time” is the most famous novel by Josephine Tay. The Association of Detective Writers of England officially considers it the greatest English detective.

Can an inspector Scotland Yard can reveal the murder that occurred almost five hundred years ago? Alan Grant lies in a hospital with a broken leg and from boredom decides to unravel the secret of the most confusing crime of medieval England-the death of two young princes, which is accused of the ultrasound king and a humpbacked monster from the children's fairy tales of Richard III. The detective is trying to figure out if the king was terrible as Shakespeare and Thomas Mor write about him. As a true policeman, he begins the investigation with the question: to whom was the murder of Richard III’s nephews beneficial?

Inspector Alan Grant goes by night train on vacation to Scotland. In the morning, upon arrival at the station, he accidentally discovers the corpse of the young Frenchman Charles Martin in the next compartment and is mechanically selecting a newspaper from the floor, which the young man read shortly before his death.

The police do not consider it necessary to investigate the case, believing that it was believing that The passenger’s death occurred due to natural causes, but Grant is sure that the police are mistaken. He is haunted by a poem about singing sands, which Charles Martin sketched in the fields of the newspaper...