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

Piu Marie Eatwell

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

Piu Marie Eatwell

298 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced
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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 t...

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