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Elizabeth Peters
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Sign up todayThe Murders of Richard III
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Learn moreIn 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 groupโs eccentricitiesโuntil 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.
Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicagoโs famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.
Grace Conlin (1962โ1997) was the recording name of Grainne Cassidy, an award-winning actress and acclaimed narrator. She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in Woolly Mammothโs production of Savage in Limbo.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Grace Conlin
ISBN:
9781481558051
Length:
6 hours 52 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
October 1, 1995
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
“Highly entertaining.”
“History buffs will enjoy the author’s grasp of the details and suppositions of this medieval period.”
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