Lang turns detective on a dozen puzzles of secret history. The title essay pursues the valet who became the Man in the Iron Mask; others weigh the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, the false Jeanne d’Arc and the voices of the true one, the death of Amy Robsart, the mysterious James de la Cloche, Fisher’s Ghost, and the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.
Witty, sceptical and learned, these studies suit anyone who enjoys an unsolved case from the archives. Download the free EPUB.