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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse Piu Eatwell

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse By Piu Eatwell

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Eatwell


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A Book Riot Best Book of the Year
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (History/Biography)

It's Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history. -Library Journal

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse Summary

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell

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 Reviews

A riveting true crime from yesteryear. -- Better Homes & Gardens
Too good a book to spoil. -- Daily Beast
A reminder that no matter what stories have captured popular tastes right now...nothing quite takes your breath away like a Novemberish tale that turns out to be real. -- Nick Owchar - Los Angeles Review of Books
A juicy narrative history packed with revelations about unsavory goings-on among the upper classes in late Victorian England. -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe
A superb unraveling of a sensational mystery-and an absolutely gripping read. -- David King, best-selling author of Death in the City of Light
A lively account of the light shone on the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society. -- Times (London)

About Piu Eatwell

Piu Eatwell is the author of Black Dahlia, Red Rose and The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse and has produced and researched historical documentaries for the BBC and other channels, including the widely acclaimed film Charles Manson: The Man Who Killed the Sixties. She divides her time between Paris and London with her husband and three children.

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GOR010705331
9781631492310
1631492314
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20161021
368
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