The question is relevant, since the remains of the usurper just been exhumed in Leicester, as they have been abandoned by the victors there are more than 500 years.
It is time to get serious and open Josephine Tey's novel, The Girl of Time (Book published in 1951)
and interest in this new king condemned to the hell of great criminals of history.
The novel is built with a rare ingenuity, as a detective story.
The Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stupidly fell into a trap during an arrest. Seriously injured, he lies in a hospital room and it seems that his next weeks will be devoted to the contemplation of the ceiling cracks.
This is without counting her friend Marta, who, to distract the police Billant a little depressed, brings him an envelope filled with portraits, anonymous faces, he can try to imagine the fate.
Among these faces, that of Richard III retains inspector's attention and this is the beginning of a surprising survey, conducted from a hospital bed, and dedicated to the search for Truth. Truth, which, precisely, is the daughter of Time.
We are convinced or not by subtle arguments and scholars who bring Inspector Grant to exonerate the King. But it is exciting, as the English say.
And most of the talk may not be there. The key is thinking about historical truth, always threatened by the interests of both the ideology of others. Always essential to avoid thinking that history escapes the scientist or skeptic, it becomes legend and a naive faith endorses lying, permanently fixed, transformed into a relic, like a piece of the True Cross or shin Saint Nicolas.
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