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A juicy narrative history packed with revelations about unsavory goings-on among the upper classes in late Victorian England. -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe It's Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in Piu Marie Eatwell's The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse, a delightfully offbeat history of a bizarre Edwardian legal case that became tabloid fodder and kept the British public spellbound for a decade... Eatwell's marvelous book reads like a Wilkie Collins gothic novel, but at times truth is stranger than fiction. -- Wilda Williams - Library Journal (Editor's Fall Picks) A meticulous examination of a late Victorian/early Edwardian cause celebre...with juicy details from the time period. -- Publishers Weekly [An] engrossing tale of mystery, lies, and intrigue...Besides recounting years of subterfuge, media hype, greed, and fraud, Eatwell throws light on Victorian and Edwardian society: aristocratic entitlement and power, numbing poverty, political corruption, and many secret lives. -- Kirkus Reviews A riveting true crime from yesteryear. -- Better Homes & Gardens A superb unraveling of a sensational mystery-and an absolutely gripping read. -- David King, best-selling author of Death in the City of Light A lively account of the light shone on the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society. -- Times (London) Madness, guilt, eccentricity, subterfuge-Piu Marie Eatwell's study of the Druce case has it all: the eccentric dukes, liaisons below stairs, extraordinary claims in courts of chancery, exhumations, high-Victorian catacombs, famous detectives. Like all good whodunits, the story of the Duke of Portland and his fortune makes compelling reading. -- M. J. Trow, author of the Inspector Lestrade detective series An eccentric duke, a mysterious claimant to the title, a long legal battle to open a grave in pursuit of a huge fortune-it's a thoroughly engrossing story, in the best traditions of Mr. Whicher. -- Nicholas Best, author of Five Days That Shocked the World

A juicy narrative history packed with revelations about unsavory goings-on among the upper classes in late Victorian England. -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe It's Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in Piu Marie Eatwell's The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse, a delightfully offbeat history of a bizarre Edwardian legal case that became tabloid fodder and kept the British public spellbound for a decade... Eatwell's marvelous book reads like a Wilkie Collins gothic novel, but at times truth is stranger than fiction. -- Wilda Williams - Library Journal (Editor's Fall Picks) A meticulous examination of a late Victorian/early Edwardian cause celebre...with juicy details from the time period. -- Publishers Weekly [An] engrossing tale of mystery, lies, and intrigue...Besides recounting years of subterfuge, media hype, greed, and fraud, Eatwell throws light on Victorian and Edwardian society: aristocratic entitlement and power, numbing poverty, political corruption, and many secret lives. -- Kirkus Reviews A superb unraveling of a sensational mystery-and an absolutely gripping read. -- David King, best-selling author of Death in the City of Light A lively account of the light shone on the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society. -- Times (London) Madness, guilt, eccentricity, subterfuge-Piu Marie Eatwell's study of the Druce case has it all: the eccentric dukes, liaisons below stairs, extraordinary claims in courts of chancery, exhumations, high-Victorian catacombs, famous detectives. Like all good whodunits, the story of the Duke of Portland and his fortune makes compelling reading. -- M. J. Trow, author of the Inspector Lestrade detective series An eccentric duke, a mysterious claimant to the title, a long legal battle to open a grave in pursuit of a huge fortune-it's a thoroughly engrossing story, in the best traditions of Mr. Whicher. -- Nicholas Best, author of Five Days That Shocked the World

[An] engrossing tale of mystery, lies, and intrigue... ...Besides recounting years of subterfuge, media hype, greed, and fraud, Eatwell throws light on Victorian and Edwardian society: aristocratic entitlement and power, numbing poverty, political corruption, and many secret lives. -- Kirkus Reviews A superb unraveling of a sensational mystery-and an absolutely gripping read. -- David King, bestselling author of Death in the City of Light

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Piu Marie Eatwell is an Oxford University graduate and has produced and researched historical documentaries for the BBC. She divides her time between Paris and London with her husband and three children.

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