Man Who Fell from the Sky: The True Story Gaudy Life Bizarre Demise 20's Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein mod - Hardcover

Norris, William

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9780670813698: Man Who Fell from the Sky: The True Story Gaudy Life Bizarre Demise 20's Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein mod

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ISBN 10: 0670813699 ISBN 13: 9780670813698

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1987

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A vivid portrait of an international tycoon's life in the Roaring Twenties, this book looks at the life and possible murder of Alfred Loewenstein--who accidentally fell from a plane into the English Channel--in an attempt to discover the mystery behind his death.

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About the Author:

William (Bill) Norris has been a professional writer since joining his local newspaper as an apprentice reporter at the age of 16. After working for a variety of newspapers in England and Africa, he was appointed Parliamentary Correspondent to the prestigious Times (of London) ten years later - one of the youngest ever to gain this position. He held the post for seven years, revolutionising the art of the "parliamentary sketch", then transferred to become Africa Correspondent for The Times, covering political events and wars in Biafra, Nigeria, Angola, the Congo, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. He became Associate Director of the PressWise Trust (a British media ethics charity) in 1997, in which post he counselled young journalists and promoted the cause of journalistic ethics. The latter, he said, was rather like preaching the virtues of continence to a shipload of sex-starved sailors. Six years ago he moved to the South of France, where he lives with his wife, Betty, two cats, and two exhausting dogs. He is also an experienced public speaker, having addressed such varied venues as a World Health Organisation conference in Moscow, a European Union conference on journalistic ethics in Cyprus (at both of which he was the keynote speaker), and international post-graduate students at the University of London. A member emeritus of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Florida's Eckerd College, he now spends much of his time advising journalistic students.

From Library Journal:

This contains the germ of a real-life, exciting murder mystery. Alfred Loewenstein, wealthy financier, mysteriously fell from a plane somewhere over the English Channel in 1928. The crew and flying companions claimed that it was an accident. No real investigation was undertaken. Norris, author of The Unsafe Sky and Willful Misconduct, has spent a great deal of time checking the life and times of Loewenstein. He details Loewenstein's financial shenanigans, most of them illegal. But a good murder mystery needs a plausible plot, a villain with the ability and desire to commit the murder, and most of all, gripping suspense. At the conclusion of the book, Norris is forced to make a wild guess as to the villain, without solid proof that a crime was committed. The reader is left perplexed and indifferent. Not recommended.Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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