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001    919591197 
003    OCoLC 
005    20151007125333.0 
008    150908s2015    nyua     b    000 0beng   
010      2015024557 
020    9781631491238 (hardcover) 
020    1631491237 (hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)919591197 
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092    941.0823092|bPOR 
100 1  Eatwell, Piu Marie,|eauthor. 
245 14 The dead duke, his secret wife, and the missing corpse :
       |ban extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and 
       intrigue /|cPiu Marie Eatwell. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division 
       of W.W. Norton & Company,|c2015. 
300    xiii, 338 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335). 
505 0  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. 
520 2  "One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the 
       Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr.
       Whicher. At the close of the Victorian era, as now, 
       privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of
       Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his horsedrawn 
       carriage and creating tunnels between buildings to avoid 
       being seen. So when, in 1897, an elderly widow asked the 
       court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. 
       Druce, under the suspicion that he'd led a double life as 
       the 5th Duke, no one could dismiss her claim. The 
       eccentric duke, Anna Maria was sure, had faked his death 
       as Druce, and, therefore, her son should inherit the 
       Portland millions. A lurid, decade-long case was born. 
       Uncovering new archival treasures and offering a 'lively 
       account of ... the lies, deceit, and hypocrisy of 
       Victorian society' (The Times), Piu Marie Eatwell evokes 
       an era in transition, when the rise of sensationalist 
       media blurred every fact into fiction, and when family 
       secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new
       heights"--Provided by publisher. 
600 10 Portland, William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck,|cDuke of,
       |d1800-1879|xDeath and burial. 
650  0 Eccentrics and eccentricities|zEngland|vBiography. 
650  0 Privacy|xSocial aspects|zEngland|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Secrecy|xSocial aspects|zEngland|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Missing persons|zEngland|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Fraud|zEngland|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Trials (Fraud)|zEngland|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yEdward VII, 1901-1910|vBiography.