num_pages: 128
description: One would have thought that after 9 centuries or more a place as important as Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London to give its full title cold have no mysteries; so official were it's many activities so documented its many functions that surely everything must have been reported or recorded explained or accounted for.Yet despite its vital importance in the life of the nation and all the meticulous records maintained the Tower's past is punctuated by question marks its history inextricably and in many cases inexplicably intertwined with mystery. Not only does buried treasure await discovery and skeletons plead for identification but the spirits of the hapless prisoners who died by bullet or blade suffocation or poison all cry out for the truth to be revealed their killers named the reasons for their cruel deaths exposed.But as the following pages will show dark are the shadows where the Tower's secrets lurk and brave the person who seeks to unravel the threads of the past.
language: English
title: Mysteries of the Tower of London
publisher: Hendon Publishing Co.