Serpent In Eden

Serpent In Eden

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Owen, James
Little, Brown Book Group
EAN: 9780349115412
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Night comes quickly to the Bahamas. That of 7 July 1943 was unpleasantly close and humid, for though the rains were nearing their end, the air was heavy with an approaching storm. It struck Nassau soon after midnight. By the time it had blown itself out, one of the world's richest men, Sir Harry Oakes, had been murdered in his own bedroom. He had been burned alive, then had his skull broken by four blows to the head. When the body was found at daybreak, bloody handprints marked the walls of the room, while a fan stirred small white feathers that clung to the charred corpse on the bed. Beyond it, the window stood wide open. Even in the middle of wartime, Oakes's death commanded front-page headlines in the world's newspapers, and began a series of events whose protagonists included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway, two French aristocrats, a suspected Nazi and a grey Maltese cat, and which culminated in the sensational trial and acquittal of Oakes's own son-in-law for the crime. Owen's brilliant telling of the story stands alongside James Fox's WHITE MISCHIEF as a true-crime classic as well as an extraordinary portrait of a glamorous and corrupt society.
EAN 9780349115412
ISBN 0349115419
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Little, Brown Book Group
Datum vydání 6. července 2006
Stránky 304
Jazyk English
Rozměry 198 x 133 x 22
Země United Kingdom
Sekce General
Autoři Owen, James
Ilustrace Section: 8, b/w