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The Drummond Affair

Author : Stephanie Matthews
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1837730601
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Drummond Affair written by Stephanie Matthews and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A serious reinvestigation full of revealing background information that sheds additional light on what was then and now remains a shocking crime' Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking 'This riveting, eye-opening investigation of a 70-year-old murder mystery reads like a whodunit ... A true crime must-read' Dean Jobb, author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream 'As much social history as it is gripping true crime' Jeremy Craddock, author of The Jigsaw Murders 'A meticulously researched re-examination' Caitlin Davies, author of Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths 1950s France. A British establishment figure. A shocking crime. A miscarriage of justice. The search for truth. In 1952, in a peaceful corner of Provence, a farmer's son stumbled upon a terrible scene. Three bodies: a husband and wife shot dead, their ten-year-old daughter savagely beaten to death. They were all British. So begins one of the most notorious murder cases in French history. Sir Jack Drummond was a senior advisor to the British government, a household name who was respected and admired. His fame made the case a cause celebre in France and resulted in the swift conviction of a local farmer, but questions about Drummond's life and death remain unanswered. In this bold new investigation, Stephanie Matthews and Daniel Smith strip away the prejudice and propaganda to reveal a grave miscarriage of justice. A light is shone on Drummond's secret life in the shadows of the Cold War, painting a portrait of an enigmatic man who may not have been the innocent holidaymaker he appeared to be, and recasting one of the twentieth century's most notorious murders in a fascinating and important new light.

The Dominici Affair

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612349900
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Dominici Affair written by Martin Kitchen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular murders of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 prompted one of the most notorious criminal investigations in postwar Europe. It is still a matter of passionate debate in France. Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand’ Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old proprietor of La Grand’ Terre, Gaston Dominici, was brought to trial, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine. When Dominici was convicted, there was general agreement that the ignorant, pitiless, and depraved old peasant had gotten what he deserved. At the time, he stood for everything backward and brutish about a peasantry left behind in the wake of France’s postwar transformation and burgeoning prosperity. But with time perspectives changed. Subsequent inquiries coupled with widespread doubts and misgivings prompted President de Gaulle to order his release from prison in 1960, and by the 1980s many in France came to believe—against all evidence—that Gaston Dominici was innocent. He had become a romanticized symbol of a simpler, genuine, and somehow more honest life from a bygone era. Reconstructing the facts of the Drummond murders, The Dominici Affair redefines one of France’s most puzzling crimes and illustrates the profound changes in French society that took place following the Second World War.

Scandal at Dolphin Square

Author : Simon Danczuk
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750999829
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Scandal at Dolphin Square written by Simon Danczuk and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine 'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk...' Iain Dale Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of the country's most notorious addresses; a place where the private lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best part of a century. This is the story of the Square and its people, an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life characters who have borne witness to, and played pivotal roles in, some of the most scandalous episodes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Oswald Mosley and the Carry On gang to allegations of systematic sexual abuse, it is a saga replete with mysterious deaths, exploitation, espionage, illicit love affairs and glamour, shining a light on the changing nature of British politics and society in the modern age.

Drummond of Hawthornden

Author : David Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Drummond of Hawthornden written by David Masson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ill Met by Moonlight

Author : René Weis
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1805146378
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Ill Met by Moonlight written by René Weis and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a steamy August night in 1952, a British family settles down to sleep beside their car in a lay-by. Before daybreak all three of them, a father, a mother, and their ten-year-old daughter, have been brutally murdered. In a remote corner of Provence two worlds collide under a full moon. The British family are pioneering scientists and cosmopolitan; the French family accused of the crime are farmers defined by their land and codes of conduct which struck outsiders as feral. The accused farmers closed ranks and lied repeatedly in the shadow of the guillotine and to save the family’s honour. An inspector calls. With extraordinary tenacity he tracks down the man dubbed ‘the monster of the farm of the damned’. This is the true story of the most contested murder in France since the Second World War, the inspiration for films and tales of espionage, hit squads, wartime bullion treasure, and chemical weapons research. Doubts still linger locally in this part of France as to the final judicial outcome. Conspiracy theories about the reason for the murders are routinely aired, and some family members of the man finally convicted of the crime still claim his innocence.

God's Own Gentlewoman

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1837731667
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book God's Own Gentlewoman written by Diane Watt and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman. Drawing on what is the largest archive of medieval correspondence relating to a single family in the UK, God's Own Gentlewoman explores what everyday life was like during the turbulent decades at the height of the Wars of the Roses. From political conflicts and familial in-fighting; forbidden love affairs and clandestine marriages; bloody battles and sieges; fear of plague and sudden death; friendships and animosity; childbirth and child mortality, Margaret's letters provide us with unparalleled insight into all aspects of life in late medieval England. Diane Watt is a world expert on medieval women's writing, and God's Own Gentlewoman explores how Margaret's personal archive provides an insight into her activities, experiences, emotions and relationships and the life of a medieval woman who was at times absorbed by the mundane and domestic, but who also found herself caught up in the most extraordinary situations and events.

Drummond of Hawthornden

Author : David Masson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368174339
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Drummond of Hawthornden written by David Masson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

The International Year Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New International Year Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The New International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Year Book

Author : Frank Moore Colby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The International Year Book written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontier Follies

Author : Ree Drummond
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062962825
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Frontier Follies written by Ree Drummond and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. Once upon a time, I lost my marbles and married a sexy, Wrangler-wearing cowboy named Ladd. That single decision would wind up setting the stage for years of rural adventures (and misadventures), and while I can't imagine my life being any different, raising a family in the “idyllic” countryside has not been without a few bumps in the road. (Or were those cow patties? It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.) I'm excited to share this crazy collection of true stories from my full-of-energy, hard-to-tame, wonderfully wild (and very weird) frontier family. From the unique challenges of being married to a rancher to the blood, sweat, mud, and tears of raising country kids, I'll pull back the curtain and let you in on some of the sh*t and shenanigans that have really gone on here on Drummond Ranch over the past two-plus decades. You'll learn about marital spats, run-ins with wildlife, ER visits, my parenting neuroses, triumphs, tribulations, love, loss . . . and how manure has somehow managed to weave its way through all of it. To keep things up to the minute, you'll also hear about more recent family developments that have tested my sanity and pushed me to the brink. (And pleasantly surprised me, too.) This book is both a love letter and a laugh letter, and I hope you get a big kick out of it all: the good, the bad, and the dirty. Mostly, I hope it demonstrates how much I adore this family of mine . . . even if I sometimes have to use rubber snakes to show it.

The Bookman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Don Drummond

Author : Heather Augustyn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475471
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Don Drummond written by Heather Augustyn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide, only to take the life of his lover and in so doing, destroy his career at the age of 30. In his short life Don Drummond created an enduring legacy despite poverty, class separation, mental illness, racial politics, and the exploitation of his work. The words of Drummond's childhood friends, classmates, musicians, medical staff, legal counsel, and teachers enliven this story of his "unusual mind." They recall the early days in the recording studio, playing the instrumental backup for Bob Marley and others, and the nights in the Rasta camps where musicians burned the midnight oil and more. They remember the gyrations of his lover, Margarita, the Rumba Queen, as she tantalized audiences at Club Havana; tell what happened that tragic night when Drummond stabbed Margarita four times; reveal details of the trial (delayed more than a year as Drummond was ruled mentally unfit) and offer insights into Drummond's death in a mental asylum at age 35.

Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Egypt

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Egypt written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Masson, David Drummond of Hawthornden

Author : William Drummond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Masson, David Drummond of Hawthornden written by William Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Affairs of State

Author : Jennifer Lewis
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460313453
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Affairs of State written by Jennifer Lewis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Royalty First she discovers she's the secret daughter of the American president, then she falls for a British prince. Ariella Winthrop's life can't get much more complicated. Or can it? Having fun with Simon Worth—passionate meetings, hiding their attraction from the public—is one thing. But getting serious? The British monarchy certainly doesn't want their beloved prince dating an American, much less one with her fair share of scandals. But when Ariella discovers she's pregnant with a royal baby, all bets are off. This woman is fighting for what is hers.

A Spear of Summer Grass

Author : Deanna Raybourn
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488032963
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A Spear of Summer Grass written by Deanna Raybourn and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, divorce, and scandal send an American socialite to Kenya for a journey of discovery in this historical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society. Against the frivolity of her peers, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. As foreign to Delilah as Africa, Ryder becomes her guide to the complex beauty of this unknown world. Giraffes, buffalo, lions and elephants roam the shores of Lake Wanyama amid swirls of red dust. Here, life is lush and teeming—yet fleeting and often cheap. Amidst the wonders—and dangers—of Africa, Delilah awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness, beauty and joy that cut to her very heart. Only when this sacred place is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth fighting for—and what she can no longer live without. Praise for A Spear of Summer Grass “An exotic journey of redemption.” —Kirkus Reviews “Rayburn’s breezy, straightforward style is a nice counterpoint to the complexity of her heroine.” —Publishers Weekly