From the luxury of London's wealthiest casinos to the poverty of an African shanty town, former Scotland Yard detective Roy Ranson has stuck relentlessly for 20 years to the trail of the missing Lord Lucan. Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in 1974 after the vicious murder of his children's nanny and a near-fatal attack on his young wife, the Countess of Lucan. He has never been positively identified, despite a warrant for his arrest and a police hunt that has covered the world. Was Lord Lucan guilty of the cowardly attacks on the two innocent women that night? Or wrongly accused as he tried to save his wife from a mystery assailant who had already murdered the nanny Sandra Rivett? Is he alive and well, protected abroad by his many rich and powerful friends? Or dead at his own hands, and now lying beneath the murky waters of the English Channel? No one is closer to the truth than ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Roy Ranson, who led the original hunt for Lord Lucan. Never before has he revealed his full, authoritative knowledge of the case. With unique access to the Lucan inquiry, he disentangles the facts from the fiction. Roy Ranson's notable cases include the attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne and the theft of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.