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I should have read this years ago, but I've finally made it.
A policeman lies in a hospital bed nursing a broken leg and a king-sized beef about the fairness of life. A friend gets him interested in the mystery of Richard III and who really killed the princes in the tower. With the aid of a researcher to do the leg-work and unearth original sources he gradually solves the mystery and we learn as he learns. It's all pieced together as a police procedural and it makes fascinating reading. I'm convinced. It's a great example of how the winners write the history. Poor old Dicky 3, who by all accounts was an excellent if short-lived monarch, was very probably the victim of a fit-up by Henry 7 and his cronies. How it all happened and the conclusions drawn from original sources is really the heart of this book. It's not about the result, it's about the process.
A policeman lies in a hospital bed nursing a broken leg and a king-sized beef about the fairness of life. A friend gets him interested in the mystery of Richard III and who really killed the princes in the tower. With the aid of a researcher to do the leg-work and unearth original sources he gradually solves the mystery and we learn as he learns. It's all pieced together as a police procedural and it makes fascinating reading. I'm convinced. It's a great example of how the winners write the history. Poor old Dicky 3, who by all accounts was an excellent if short-lived monarch, was very probably the victim of a fit-up by Henry 7 and his cronies. How it all happened and the conclusions drawn from original sources is really the heart of this book. It's not about the result, it's about the process.
