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.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 165 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-0-7524-4504-5 (9780752445045)
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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.
