The reconstructed face of Richard III, based on the skull
recently discovered in Leicester, England, makes the man look
innocuous enough, the kind of chap you might happily allow to
babysit the nephews. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Alan Grant has
previously seen in Richard’s painted portrait not the face of a
baby killer but rather that of a worrier burdened by
responsibilities and ill health. Grant would be all over this
new representation – if he were a real person. Grant is, of
course, the fictional police inspector who appears in The
Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey’s 1951 detective novel. Stuck in
a hospital bed, the restless Grant is given a postcard of
Richard’s portrait by a friend who suggests he solve the mystery
of what happened to “the Princes in the Tower.” Was Richard III,
King of England from 1483-85, really the hunchbacked villain
portrayed by Shakespeare and did he really do away with his
nephews? This week, as researchers confirmed the scoliotic
skeleton in Leicester belonged to Richard III thro