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Title: Historically inacurate and boring to boot.
Review: I found this book to be one of the most historically inacurate books on the Wars of the Roses ever written. Tey uses the shield of "historical fiction" and writes as a dabbler in the history of the period; without a serious consideration of the key players. She maligns the good reputation of Sir Thomas More, and makes ridiculous assumptions about his motives that do not stand up to close academic scrutiny. In addition she bases her detectives entire investigation on a portrait that is totally unauthenticated. I found her dismissal of Historians offensive and her overall lack of scholarship depressing. Read this book if you must, but then go out and get Alison Weir's "The Princes in the Tower" for a more accurate view of the period.
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