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I absolutely don't agree about the level of misogyny in this book as exhibited by Grant. Yes, it's certainly more than we would countenance today, or even in any book written in the last 20 years. But get a grip, folks -- it was written 65 years ago! That level of casual misogyny was completely within character. Did all books written then have it? Certainly not. But more than enough did for me to cut some slack for this one. One doesn't need to like Grant (and really, we hardly know anything about him from this look at his character) to appreciate the story, and the things it's saying. This is, after all, not a book about Grant, but a book about the detective process, about who writes history and why we need to be cautious about it, but finally about Richard III, of course.
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