Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history.Ĭould such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains-a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother’s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England’s throne? NB: This book is also known as Killer in the Crowd.
With the wit and guile that have made Inspector Grant a favorite of mystery fans, the inspector sets about discovering just how a murder occurred among so many witnesses, none of whom saw a thing.
Thinking he had fainted, a spectator moved to help, but recoiled in horror from what lay before him: the man in the queue had a small silver dagger neatly plunged into his back. But one man, his head sunk down upon his chest, slowly sank to his knees and then, still more slowly, keeled over on his face.
Suddenly, the line began to move, forming a wedge before the open doors as hopeful theatergoers nudged their way forward. London’s favorite musical comedy of the past two years was finishing its run at the end of the week. Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer-whom no one saw.Ī long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre.
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