Chapter Three Summary

The Midget learned in school that Richard had a man named Tyrrel murder his own nephews by smothering them with pillows. Tyrell was hanged for the murders.

Grant's colleague, Sergeant Williams comes for a visit and talks shop for a while. He asks about the portrait of Richard III, and the Sergeant guesses he would have been "on the bench" as opposed to "on the dock." He also mentions that Richard III's mother was two years conceiving him.

The Amazon tells Alan that Sir James Tyrrel rode to London when the court was at Warwick and had the little boys killed and buried at the foot of stairs under a mound of stones, and says she learned this from Sir Thomas More's writings. She also tells him Richard poisoned his wife so he could marry the little boys' older sister, his...