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Author Eatwell, Piu Marie, author.

Title The dead Duke, his secret wife and the missing corpse [Hoopla electronic resource].

Edition Unabridged.
Publication Info. [United States] : W F Howes, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file (540 min.)) : digital.
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Performer Narrated by Barnaby Edwards.
Summary 1897: An elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce. Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, and that the - now dead - Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce's coffin would be found to be empty. The legal case that followed would last for ten years. Its eventual outcome revealed a dark underbelly of lies lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Portland, William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Duke of, 1800-1879 -- Death and burial.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Missing persons -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Secrecy -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century.
False imprisonment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Trials (Fraud) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author Edwards, Barnaby (Actor), narrator.
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ISBN 9781510004474 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
1510004475 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Music No. MWT13645619
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