Review: THE DEAD DUKE, HIS SECRET WIFE, AND THE MISSING CORPSE, Piu Marie Eatwell
"If it were a novel, people would say the storyline was too ridiculous" BOOK BLURB The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 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 ha