An authoritative account of the Lucan case, which has remained etched on the psyche of a fascinated and appalled public for 40 years.
Laura Thompson is author of Somerset Maugham Award-winning THE DOGS: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF GREYHOUND RACING, and AGATHA CHRISTIE: AN ENGLISH MYSTERY. She is now filming a major ITV programme on Agatha Christie.
Gripping... an exceptionally thorough examination'
*Daily Mail*
Sensational... the most minutely researched and brilliantly told
account ever'
*Mail on Sunday*
Tantalises with fresh evidence
*The Daily Telegraph*
A compelling new examination of the crime and a brilliant detective
mind... fascinating... Thompson gives us a tantalising range of
alternative scenarios in this superb anatomy of a murder'
*Independent*
This gripping read is part social history, part detective story...
fascinating'
*Bella*
Thompson delivers the goods: a compelling narrative, hypotheses
based on evidence and a possible solution. But she goes further,
putting the murder in the telling context of British aristocracy
and social attitudes towards it
*The Times*
Thompson is a fine writer and one can't help admiring the way she
breathes new life into an intriguing tale
*Literary Review*
[Laura Thompson] gets her teeth into the case, drawing on Lucan's
friends the Shand-Kydds, finding a new source in an anonymous Lucan
schoolfriend, and finally producing a narrative which is
sympathetic to Lucan, but less so to his wife
*TLS*
Thompson re-examines a tantalizingly ambiguous crime, delving deep
into a complicated story and emerging with a gripping narrative
that offers a fresh perspective and new solutions to one of the
most infamous cases of the 20th century
*Good Book Guide.*
Thompson approaches the mystery with forensic skill, [reaching] a
suitably enigmatic conclusion
*Daily Mail.*
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