In a remote English country mansion modern devotees of the infamous King Richard III immortally villainized by Shakespeare have gathered for a grand weekend of role-playing and Ricardian scholarship.
Jacqueline Kirby an attractive American librarian attending the festivities anticipates only one mystery to be raised: the five-hundred-year-old question of whether Richard truly killed the little princess in the Tower of London.
Jacqueline is amused at the group?s eccentricities?until history begins to repeat itself. A dangerous practical joker recreates famous fifteenth-century murder methods: beheading poisoning smothering and even drowning in a butt of malmsey. As the jokes become more and more macabre one at last proves fatal.
Racing to untangle the murderous puzzle Jacqueline puts all her observations together for a dazzling solution that will surprise even the most attentive listener.
A Blackstone Audio production.
