Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan (Lythway Large Print Books) - Hardcover

Patrick Marnham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745109187 ISBN 13: 9780745109183

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 1989

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About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

British barrister, journalist, editor and TV scriptwriter, Marnham (Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Contemporary Africa et al.) here recreates events before and after a badly wounded Veronica Lucan fled her Belgravia home in London. Her flight to a pub seeking help triggered a notorious 1974 murder investigation. She claimed that her husband John Bingham, Lord Lucan, had tried to kill her and had murdered their children's nanny, Sandra Rivett. This was the first stop on the "trail of havoc," which the author investigates, exposing members of Lucan's circle (the "elite" to whom no law applies). Marnham's account sheds light on various influential people and their efforts to vindicate Lord Lucan (who vanished after that fatal November night). When the author covered the case for the magazine Private Eye, he detected signs of corruption in the office of the prime minister and in the operations of the titled suspect's friends, including moneyed James Goldsmith, who sued the magazine for libel. In the final chapters, Marnham presents his own convincing explanation of the murder, which had tragic repercussions for everyone involved. Photos.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, squandered his inheritance and was deeply in debt when he and wife Veronica separated after months of public skirmishes. A nasty custody battle over their three children was looming in 1974 when an intruder killed the family's nanny and attacked Veronica. Lady Lucan accused her husband, and a subsequent inquest found him guilty in absentia (Lucan having vanished the morning after the murder). Marnham, a journalist who has written several previous books, weaves a spellbinding tale that feeds the current fascination with murder and mayhem among the British upper class. A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0745109187
• ISBN 13: 9780745109183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296