About
Bookstoreowner, author, professional book reviewer, and coach, Bob Spear is ahistorical performer (Buffalo Bill Cody and Burl Ives), a storyteller,and professional musician. He borrows from his own 25-year career inArmy intelligence to lend realism to the stories he writes
The Usurper King (The Plantagenet Legacy Book 3)
Description
<p><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">First, he led his own uprising. Then he captured a forsaken king. Henry had no intention of taking the crown for himself; it was given to him by popular acclaim. Alas, it didn't take long to realize that that having the kingship was much less rewarding than striving for it. Only three months after his coronation, Henry IV had to face a rebellion led by Richard's disgruntled favorites. Repressive measures led to more discontent. His own supporters turned against him, demanding more than he could give. The haughty Percies precipitated the Battle of Shrewsbury which nearly cost him the throne—and his life.</span><br style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">To make matters worse, even after Richard II's funeral, the deposed monarch was rumored to be in Scotland, planning his return. The king just wouldn't stay down and malcontents wanted him back.</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
Based on the true incident of the burning alive of 21- year-old Fred
Alexander in 1901 for suspected murder and accosting a white female
Broadway resident, Eva Roth, at 6:30 PM on 12 January 1901. The
principal of Leavenworth High, Dr Evans, witnessed and overblew the
accosting. Alexander then came under suspicion for the murder of
Pearl Forbes on election night, 2 Nov 1900. Sheriff Abernathy moved
him from city jail to county jail to State Pen back to county jail. During
this last transfer, a lynch mob of 12,000 people took him to the edge of
town, chained him to a stake, tore down a wooden shed for its wood,
stacked the wood around him and threw coal oil on it. After burning
him alive, all 12,000 filed by his body. Fred was buried in Mt. Muncie
Cemetary. Later on, a man killed a woman in Colorado with similar
MO to the Pearl Forbes murder. The Lynch mob may have burned an
innocent man.
