

Who among them is behind the attacks, and are the attacks building up to something more sinister?Īfter meeting her fellow guests, Jacqueline remarks to Thomas that "It's an English house party, darling, straight out of all those British detective stories I revel in." The book does, indeed, seem to be a parody of the genre. When the guests begin to suffer accidents illustrative of the fates of their historical counterparts, the atmosphere becomes tense. The highlight of the weekend will be the revelation of a recently discovered document purportedly proving Richard's innocence of the murders of his nephews, the princes in the Tower of London.
