H.R.H.: The Man Who Will Be King

by Tim Heald, Mayo Mohs

H.R.H. The Man Who Will Be King by Tim Heald and Mayo Mohs

186 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Tim Heald (b. 1944) is a journalist and author of mysteries. Born in Dorchester, England, he studied modern history at Oxford before becoming a reporter and columnist for the Sunday Times. He began writing novels in the early 1970s, starting with Unbecoming Habits (1973), which introduced Simon Bognor, a defiantly lazy investigator for the British Board of Trade. Heald followed Bognor through nine more novels, including Murder at Moose Jaw (1981) and Business Unusual (1989) before taking a two-decade break from the series, which returned in 2011 with Death in the Opening Chapter.

Reviews

[Andrew ✝️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is charmingly posh when it isn't dry or butt-numbingly dull. This reads more like a textbook than a biography, and yet I finish this book, at last, sensing that I learned more about his privileges, politically safe or otherwise politically tailored interests, and public image than I did about his personality. Some knock this book for being out of date, and yet I find reading books like this to be interesting in that you get to see what people were saying before a certain point in time. For what it is, I'm going to give this book 3 stars.

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

so very out-of-date hardly worth reading