Jacqueline Kirby, a retired librarian and an avid devotee of King Richard III, is invited to an English country house for a weekend to assist in clearing the King's name of the crimes attached to it. A practical joker tries to enliven the proceedings with a recreation of the 15th century murder methods and one of the jokes proves fatal.
Captured at the age of twelve by a U.S. General he comes to regard as father, Johnny Logan, a nephew of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, eventually rejects the ways of his tribe and becomes an American spy during the War of 1812.
A farmer's son becomes Gwalchmai's a servant and travels through Britain with this knight of the Round Table, son of the reacherous Morgawse, searching for Princess Elidan.