| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 338 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-335) |
| Contents |
Dramatis personae -- Act One: Burial -- Scene One: Welbeck Abbey, December 1879 -- Scene Two: St. Paul's Cathedral, March 1898 -- Scene Three: Highgate Cemetery, March 1898 -- Scene Four: Baker Street and Cavendish Square, 1860s -- Scene Five: The streets of London, Summer 1898 -- Scene Six: Featherstone Buildings, December 1898 -- Scene Seven: The New London Law Courts, three years later -- Act Two: Resurrection -- Scene Eight: Bury St. Edmunds, October 1816 -- Scene Nine: On board RMS Oroya, May 1903 -- Scene Ten: An office on London Wall, March 1907 -- Scene Eleven: Marylebone Police Court, October/December 1907 -- Scene Twelve: The Druce Vault, December 1907 -- Scene Thirteen: The Police Court, one week later -- Act Three: Revelation -- Scene Fourteen: London and Welbeck, December 1907 -- Scene Fifteen: London and Worksop, January 1908 -- Scene Sixteen: Holloway Prison, January 1908 -- Scene Seventeen: A London hotel, September 1898 -- Scene Eighteen: Sledmere House, East Riding, 1870s -- Scene Nineteen: A library in Nottingham, October 2013 -- Scene Twenty: Welbeck Abbey, October 2013 -- Epilogue: An obscure grave, London, December 2013 -- Postscript. |
| Summary |
Brilliantly recreates one of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, in which the extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, having a mania for power and privacy, faked his death under an assumed name, in a riveting account of the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society. |
| Subject |
Portland, William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Duke of, 1800-1879 -- Death and burial.
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Eccentrics and eccentricities -- England -- Biography.
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Privacy -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Secrecy -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Missing persons -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Fraud -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Trials (Fraud) -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781631491238 (hardcover) |
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1631491237 (hardcover) |
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9781631492310 (paperback) |
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1631492314 (paperback) |
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