 He later tried to persuade Dirk Bogarde to play the part on film in the 1960s, but to no avail.In Josephine Tey's novel "The Daughter of Time", which is about the reputation of King Richard III, the narrator says of the detective hero Alan Grant that though he was no expert on medieval history, "he had in his youth seen "Richard of Bordeaux"; four times he had seen it".Nicola Upson's detective novel "An Expert in Murder", the title of which is a quotation from the play, was published in 2008.