The Murders of Richard III

Second book in the Jacqueline Kirby series. Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair. The hosts and guests, all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, hope to clear his name of the five hundredyearold accusation of murder. Jacqueline is amused at first at the groups eccentricities, until the antics of a practical joker become more and more macabre, and one at last proves fatal.