The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse An Extraordinary Edwardian Case Of Deception And Intrigue
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The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse An Extraordinary Edwardian Case Of Deception And Intrigue
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Author : Piu Eatwell
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2015-10-05
The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse An Extraordinary Edwardian Case Of Deception And Intrigue written by Piu Eatwell and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
“It’s Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history.”—Library Journal At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. In 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he’d led a double life as the 5th Duke. The eccentric duke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inherit the Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu Marie Eatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fiction and when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights.
The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
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Author : Piu Marie Eatwell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-11
The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse written by Piu Marie Eatwell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with True Crime categories.
The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce. Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, and that the – now dead – Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce's coffin would be found to be empty. And her children, therefore, were heirs to the Portland millions. The legal case that followed would last for ten years. Its eventual outcome revealed a dark underbelly of lies lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.
The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
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Author : Piu Marie Eatwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-01-07
The Dead Duke His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse written by Piu Marie Eatwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-07 with Eccentrics and eccentricities categories.
The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Black Dahlia Red Rose The Crime Corruption And Cover Up Of America S Greatest Unsolved Murder
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Author : Piu Eatwell
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Black Dahlia Red Rose The Crime Corruption And Cover Up Of America S Greatest Unsolved Murder written by Piu Eatwell and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with True Crime categories.
“[A] juicy page turner . . . capturing both the allure and the perils of the dream factory that promised riches and fame.”—New York Times Book Review The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime mysteries. In a groundbreaking feat of detection hailed as “extensive” and “convincing” (Bustle), skilled legal sleuth Piu Eatwell cracks the case after seventy years, rescuing Short from tabloid fodder to reveal the woman behind the headlines. Drawing on recently unredacted FBI and LAPD files and exclusive interviews, Black Dahlia, Red Rose is a gripping panorama of noir-tinged 1940s Hollywood and a definitive account of one of the biggest unsolved murders of American legal history.
Twilight Of Empire
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Author : Greg King
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Twilight Of Empire written by Greg King and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with History categories.
On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy: star-crossed lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl caught up in a dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What happened in that locked room remains one of history’s most evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge and result in murder? Drawing interviews with members of the Habsburg family and archival sources in Vienna, Greg King and Penny Wilson reconstruct this historical mystery, laying out evidence and information long ignored that conclusively refutes the romantic myth and the conspiracy stories.
The Portland Peerage Romance
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Author : Charles J. Archard
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Portland Peerage Romance written by Charles J. Archard and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Portland Peerage Romance" by Charles J. Archard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
They Eat Horses Don T They
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Author : Piu Marie Eatwell
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-12-09
They Eat Horses Don T They written by Piu Marie Eatwell and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-09 with Travel categories.
They Eat Horses, Don't They?:The Truth About the French tells you what life in France is really like. Do the French eat horses? Do French women bare all on the beach? What is a bidet really used for? In this hilarious and informative book, Piu Marie Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?). Eatwell lived in France for many years and made the most of long French weekends, extended holidays, and paid time off to sit on French beaches, evaluate the sexual allure of the French men and women around her, and, of course, scan café menus for horses and frogs. As a result, They Eat Horses, Don't They? reveals a fascinating picture of historical and contemporary France—a country that has both changed radically in the twenty-first century, but yet still retains much of the mystery, romance, and allure that has seduced foreigners for decades. Truth, as always, is stranger than fiction. . . .
The Underground Man
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Author : Mick Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 1998
The Underground Man written by Mick Jackson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
The Fifth Duke of Portland was known as The Underground Man. This fictionalized story of the last six months of his life is told through his notebooks and the accounts of those who knew him. The Duke built a series of tunnels beneath his home and a series of dumb waiters to carry him around.
The Phantom Of Fifth Avenue
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Author : Meryl Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Phantom Of Fifth Avenue written by Meryl Gordon and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon, the definitive biography of Huguette Clark, who went from being one of the wealthiest and most famous Jazz Age socialites to spending the last twenty years of her life hiding out in hospitals. Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded, copper cage?
Black Dahlia Red Rose
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Author : Piu Eatwell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-09-28
Black Dahlia Red Rose written by Piu Eatwell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' ******* ***Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction*** 'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination' Geoffrey Wansell, author of An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick West 'Eatwell writes brilliantly . . . [she] has finally offered [Elizabeth] Short a type of belated justice. Her book reads like a thriller' Sunday Times 'A compelling read, in both style and substance . . . A must-read for anyone with an interest in the Black Dahlia - or indeed any fan of the true-crime genre' Rod Reynolds, author of The Dark Inside 'Compulsively readable, impeccably researched and heart-rending at times . . . Superb' Sarah Lotz, author of The Three and The White Road ************* On 15th January 1947, the naked, dismembered body of a black-haired beauty, Elizabeth Short, was discovered lying next to a pavement in a Hollywood suburb. She was quickly nicknamed The Black Dahlia. The homicide inquiry that followed consumed Los Angeles for years and the authorities blew millions of dollars of resources on an investigation that threw up dozens of suspects. But it never was solved. Until now. In this ground-breaking book, Piu Eatwell reveals compelling forensic and eye witness evidence for the first time, which finally points to the identity of the murderer. The case was immortalised in James Ellroy's famous novel based on the case, in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon and Brian de Palma's movie The Black Dahlia. This is a dark tale of sex, manipulation, obsession, psychopathy and one of the biggest police cover ups in history.