Richard and his first wife, Isabel Marshall, appear as characters in Virginia Henley's historical novels, The Marriage Prize and The Dragon and the Jewel, and in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel Falls the Shadow.

Here Be Dragons ( 1985 ) is the first of Penman's trilogy of novels about the medieval princes of Gwynedd.

The Devil's Brood was supposed to be the final volume in Penman's Plantagenet series, but the " Angevins were not ready to go quietly into that good night.

Sharon Penman's novel, Falls the Shadow, is a fictional retelling of de Montfort's life from his arrival in England to his death.

* King Philip appears in Sharon Kay Penman's novels The Devil's Brood and Lionheart.

* Henry is a prominent character in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel Falls the Shadow ; his portrayal is very close to most historical descriptions of him as weak and vacillating.

Sharon Kay Penman's novel The Sunne in Splendour features her as an important character in the early parts of the book, up until the Battle of Tewkesbury.

She is also found in Sharon Kay Penman's The Sunne in Splendour, where she is seen mainly through the eyes of others and in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time where she is not evil but too self-centered and too kind to her family.

Llywelyn further appears in Penman's later novel Falls the Shadow.

He has a role in Sharon Kay Penman's novel When Christ and His Saints Slept.

George A. Gaskell ( 1845 – 1886 ), a student of Spencer, authored two popular books on penmanship, Gaskell's Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing and The Penman's Hand-Book ( 1883 ).

* William Marshal also appears as a supporting character in Thomas B. Costain's out of print novel Below the Salt, and Sharon Kay Penman's novels Time and Chance and Devil's Brood, as well as a minor appearance in Penman's When Christ and His Saints Slept, illustrating the story about young William's time as King Stephen's hostage and John Marshal's defiance.

Henry is an important character in Sharon Kay Penman's novels Time and Chance and The Devil's Brood.

Geoffrey is an important character in Sharon Penman's novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, which deals with the war between his wife and King Stephen.

* The affair with Henry II is also detailed in Sharon Penman's historical novelisation Time and Chance.

It continues in Penman's Devil's Brood.

Penman's settings are all in the Middle Ages ; the Welsh Princes trilogy is set in the 13th century, a century earlier than The Sunne in Splendour.

Penman's characterization of Simon de Montfort is that of a man increasingly disillusioned by his sovereign, rebels in 1263, becomes regent to Henry III, and attempts to reestablish rights granted under the Magna Carta.

The Reckoning ( 1991 ) chronicles the reign of England's King Henry III in Penman's final volume of the series that began with Here Be Dragons.

Penman's approach to her novels is to present meticulously researched medieval life and history as everyday life ; and to present the nobility as fallible.

A Library Journal review praises Penman's attention to detail in which she " combines an in-depth knowledge of medieval Europe with vivid storytelling, re-creating the complex events and emotional drama of the 12th-15th centuries.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as " the first feminist mystery novel.

By rationalisation, Weber understood first, the individual cost-benefit calculation, second, the wider, bureaucratic organisation of the organisations and finally, in the more general sense as the opposite of understanding the reality through mystery and magic ( disenchantment ).

The term microevolution was first used by botanist Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in the journal Botanical Gazette in 1909, addressing what he called the " mystery " of how formlessness gives rise to form.

The Orphic religion, which taught reincarnation, first appeared in Thrace in north-eastern Greece and Bulgaria, about the 6th century BC, organized itself into mystery schools at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.

Spenser ( his first name is never revealed ) is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins.

According to the Saintly Bible website, every Saint book published between 1928 and 1983 saw the first edition issued by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK ( a company that originally published only religious books ) and The Crime Club ( an imprint of Doubleday that specialized in mystery and detective fiction ) in the United States.

The film has two distinct parts: the first is a mystery ; the second a science-fiction adventure.

The origin of the Kurent is a mystery, and not much is known of the times, beliefs, or purposes connected with its first appearance.

" " It is the first time, in fact, and saying it fills our souls with profound emotion, that an Ecumenical Council has presented such a vast synthesis of the Catholic doctrine regarding the place which the Blessed Mary occupies in the mystery of Christ and of the Church.

He trialled several versions of the opening ; the first edit included bookend scenes in which Jane and Ricky are convicted of Lester's murder, but Mendes excised these in the last week of editing because he felt they made the film lose its mystery, and because they did not fit with the theme of redemption that had emerged during production.

Based on this introspection, he writes " This discloses the real mystery of free will: if our experience is compatible with its utter absence, how can we say that we see any evidence for it in the first place?

His detective novel, Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery.

1966 cover of the revised version of The Secret of the Old Clock, the first Nancy Drew mystery

** The case of the girl detective With the passing of Nancy Drew's first author, the mystery of the teenage sleuth's true identity only deepens.

After that, the Syndicate focused on mystery series aimed again at its younger base: the Hardy Boys, which first appeared in 1927, ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and others, and Nancy Drew, which first appeared in 1930, ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, and others.

As Banks ' first novel to eschew ' special effects ', not being Gothic horror like The Wasp Factory, a literary mystery ( Walking on Glass ), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works.

Fonda won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1971, playing a high-class call girl, Bree Daniels, in the murder mystery Klute.

* C. P. Snow's Death Under Sail ( 1932 ), his first novel, after which he turned to mainstream fiction ; it features unusually complex characters for a mystery of this period

Archer also develops a romantic relationship with Barbara Barga, an American reporter whom he first met at the Spode murder scene and who appears involved in the mystery.

Over a decade later, the Money Pit mystery was the subject of an episode of the television series In Search of ..., which first aired January 18, 1979, bringing the legend of Oak Island to a wider audience.

They were a great mystery when discovered in 1967, and the team who identified the first one considered the possibility that it could be a signal from an advanced civilization.

Pinter's first play was The Room – in which the main character, Rose, is menaced by Riley who invades her safe space though the actual source of menace remains a mystery – and this theme of characters in a safe space menaced by an outside force is repeated in many of his later works ( perhaps most famously in The Birthday Party ).