Abstract
Josephine Tey wrote a delightful detective novel entitled, The Daughter of Time, in which the subject of this mystery was Richard the Third, the last of the Plantagenets to occupy the English Throne. The conclusion to her detective-like analysis was that Richard the Third was the victim of ’’Tonypandy,” a term that she acquired from an incident that took place in Tonypandy, South Wales. The term, as she has coined it, is synonymous with myth or legend, but with the added connotation of a deliberate fabrication that has become a traditional belief. Miss Tey reached her conclusion through the' media of fiction. The author of this thesis reached the same conclusion, but rather by research or an analytical process that was based on fact and also on speculation.