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Eatwell, Piu Marie

 
9781781856086: The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
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ISBN 10 : 1781856087 ISBN 13 : 9781781856086
Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Of mixed Asian/English descent, Piu Marie Eatwell has a congratulatory First Class degree from Oxford University. She has lived and worked in France for ten years.

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Éditeur
Head of Zeus
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781856087
ISBN 13 
9781781856086
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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