History of King Richard III , first published in 1543, and Horace Walpole’s

Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third , first published in 1769 .

Lawrence Tanner and William Wright, “Recent Investigation Regarding the Fate of the Princes in the Tower,”

Archaeologia

84 (1935). If only they conducted a DNA test ...

Josephine Tey,

The Daughter of Time (New York: Macmillan, 1951). A 20th-century Scotland Yard inspector concludes that Richard was framed in a novel that’s a fine detective story but less convincing as history .

Richard the Third (New York: W. W. Norton, 1955). A readable and sympathetic biography that points the finger at the duke of Buckingham .

Elizabeth Peters,

The Murders of Richard III (New York: Warner Books, 1986). A moderately entertaining English country house mystery, originally published in 1974, in which a bunch of Ricardians dress up as their heroes, then find themselves living through-or rather, dying through- reenactments of his crimes .

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