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Murdered Midas
Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise | Charlotte Gray
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A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of the infamous Sir Harry Oakes as only Charlotte Gray can tell it On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and "richest man in the Empire," was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as "the crime of the century." The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the Governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumours were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired - from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who, despite his wealth and position, was never able to have justice.
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Bookwormjillk
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Mehso-so

A member of my work book club will only pick books that cost less than $2 on kindle, so this one was better than some of their others but not a great read for my mood right now. It‘s a true crime about a gold prospector murdered in the Bahamas and the resulting trial. At least it checked a box for #ReadingTheAmericas2023

BarbaraBB Well played! 2y
Aims42 Wow, that‘s gotta make for some interesting reads if $2 is their limit on Kindle 🤔 2y
Bookwormjillk @Aims42 oh yeah, we have had some “interesting” reads 2y
Aims42 @Bookwormjillk Hehehe 🤭 A co-worker I used to work with would read aloud the daily free eBook blurbs from some website she followed (maybe it was BookRiot? This was 10 years ago) and those were… iiiiiiinteresting lol 2y
Librarybelle I actually remember seeing this in a review journal - the cover stuck in my mind, though I didn‘t explore it far enough to see what it was actually about 😂 2y
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BookishMadHatter
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Dr. Quackenbush is officially my new favorite name

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BookishMadHatter
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Gotta love it when you can read at work
#librarian #sneakinginpages #readingatwork

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rabbitprincess
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Another great book from Charlotte Gray. It followed on nicely from her earlier book, Gold Diggers, which I had happened to read recently. In this book I particularly liked her discussions of the sources she consulted and how she evaluated their reliability.

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Mitch
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Lots of ‘new - to - me‘ books here and another few to stack! 👍🏼

https://www.cbc.ca/books/22-canadian-thrillers-and-mysteries-to-read-for-nationa...

AmyG Ha...I don‘t know why I looked at this list. I have so much to read andhoping to get out of my mini-slump any day now. 5y
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Dragon
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Went to a great discussion by Charlotte Gray , about her new work , a true crime / historical nonfiction book exploring the murder of a very rich Canadian gold mine owner in Bermuda during WWII .Sounds fascinating!

rabbitprincess Just came across this post and hoping you are doing OK ♥️ 4y
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