G.M.Malliet: The Bedridden Detective and The Daughter of Time
I stumbled across G.M. Malliet’s write up of Tey’s classic, The Daughter of Time, on goodreads, and she agreed to share it with us. Malliet, of course, is the gifted creator of the St. Just and Max Tudor books, among others. She’s a lover of golden age mystery fiction – The Daughter of Time being a prominent example – and a perpetrator herself in continuing that tradition, with her own modern updates to the form. Read on!
What if the most gripping mystery you ever read involved no car chases, no shootouts, and a detective who literally cannot get out of bed? That’s the premise of The Daughter of Time – and it works brilliantly.