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Diane Janes - The Case of the Poisoned Partridge: The Strange Death of Lieutenant Chevis - 9780752479460 - V9780752479460
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The Case of the Poisoned Partridge: The Strange Death of Lieutenant Chevis

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On 22 June 1931, Lieutenant Hugh Chevis and Frances, his bride of six months, sat down to dinner as usual at their bungalow at Deepcut Barracks. Within an hour, Chevis was showing signs of strychnine poisoning and by the next morning he was dead. Thus began one of the most intriguing unsolved murder enquiries of the twentieth century — soon to become known as ‘The Case of the Poisoned Partridge’. When a mysterious telegram arrived from Dublin on the day of Hugh’s funeral, containing the words ‘HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY’, the Surrey Police found themselves at the centre of an international ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752479460
SKU
V9780752479460
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Diane Janes
DIANE JANES is a full-time writer and lecturer. She is the author of a number of crime novels and investigative non-fiction, including Edwardian Murder and Poisonous Lies. She lives in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.

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