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Indlæser... The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Errollaf Paul Spicer
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This was okay. Since Alice, the subject, didn't leave any letters or journals, however, it's hard to get a sense of how she really viewed things. The author is left to recycle other people's descriptions of places Alice went and make comments like, "Alice would have seen X and she would have been really impressed by it." It has some interesting comments about the Errol Hay murder. "The Bolter" by Osborne was better and covered the same period. ( )
Between the wars, Happy Valley in Kenya was the playground for the rich and the bored. At the centre of the jet setting set gathered were the Earl and the Countess of Errol (the Earls of Errol are related to Conservative leader David Cameron). Their parties were famous, going on for days at a time. Party games included guess the penis and male guests would take their drinks in the bathroom while the countess took a bath. And the Tories and most notably David Cameron are bemoaning broken Britain today? To read the full review - click on the link below A more appropriate title for this reappraisal of the life of the loopy American beauty, Alice, Countess de Janzé, might be The Murderess. Alice, who was born in New York in 1899, but married a French aristocrat and lived for 20 years in Kenya’s Happy Valley, was the friend, lover and, Paul Spicer boldly suggests, killer of Joss Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll. To read the full review - click on link below
In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' in the years spanning the 1920s to the 1940s no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941. Some said the good-looking womaniser had it coming. He was a philanderer who could have had any number of enemies among cuckolded husbands who wanted revenge. Ageing Jock Delves Broughton stood trial for Erroll's murder but was acquitted and the mystery remained unsolved - until now. American heiress Alice de Janzé had been conducting a clandestine affair with Joss for years. Married into French aristocracy, her stunning beauty was to prove a fatal lure to men of adventure. Previously tried by a French court for shooting one of her lovers, scandal followed her wherever she went. She arrived in Kenya as a newly married Countess in the 1920s, but by 1941 she had turned forty and the years of partying had taken their toll. Pushed aside by Erroll for younger lovers, and increasingly isolated, Alice threw herself into an act of desperation, resulting in his murder and her own tragic demise. The Temptressnot only solves the mystery of Josslyn Hay's murder with the utmost conviction - it eloquently paints a portrait of a volatile, captivating woman. No library descriptions found. |
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