Murder & Crime series: Devon - Couverture souple

Holgate, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752445049 ISBN 13 : 9780752445045

Editeur : Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Within these pages are accounts of Robert James Lees, the Ilfracombe spiritualist who claimed to have unmasked Jack the Ripper; Charles De Ville Wells, the Plymouth-based fraudster who famously broke the bank at Monte Carlo; Herbert Rowse Armstrong, the former Newton Abbot solicitor who remains the only member of his profession to be executed for murder; Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire's son who was assassinated in Dublin; Oscar Wilde, whose downfall was initiated by an incriminating letter sent from Babbacombe; and Robert Hichens, the helmsman of the Titanic who later in life was jailed for attempted murder in Torquay.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike Holgate has written five Tempus books and two for Nonsuch. Mike works for Torbay Services and regularly contributes articles to Devon Life. He lives in Torquay.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tempus Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752445049
• ISBN 13: 9780752445045
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible