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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I agree with these points. I think that Tey wanted to explore both "how" history is constructed (e.g. myths, propaganda, biases, through the winner's eyes) as well as the "sources." She makes a point of Grant progressing through several different types of sources in his investigation as his interest in solving the mystery grows, i.e. children's history, popular history and scholarly history. Also, the title of the book asserts that time may separate fact from fiction in the future in its reference to Francis Bacon's quote: "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." [...]
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I see it as a case of the wrong character for the story. She needed a poor investigator in order them to stumble over all the parts of history that she wanted to lead her audience across - and I think she did this very well - the problem is that an inspector of long experience should not make a convincingly poor investigator.