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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780752445045
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The History Press, (01 November 2007)
- Number of Pages
- 95
- Weight
- 230 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 167 x 9 mm
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