DEATH AT THE PRIORY: LOVE.SEX AND MURDER IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.

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'Death at the Priory' finally solves the riddle of the Priory murder,one of the great mysteries in modern crime. In 1875,the beautiful and vivacious widow Florence Ricardo wedded Charles Bravo,a dashing barrister.The marriage seemed a happy one,although society gossips whispered that Bravo had married Florence for her fortune.Yet behind his charming public persona,Charles Bravo was a brutal and vindictive man,who dismissed Florence's steadfast companion,Mrs Cox,and who regularly subjected his wife to violent abuse.One night,four months after the wedding,Bravo collapsed.For the next fifty-five hours,with some of London's most distinguished physicians in attendance,Charles suffered a slow and agonizing death.All the doctors agreed: Charles Bravo had been poisoned.The police were called in and suspicion fell upon everyone in the Priory,the house in South London in which he and Florence had lived.The dramatic investigation that followed was covered in minute and sensational detail by the press.So great was public interest in the case that coverage of it eclipsed the prime minister's negotiations with Egypt,the Prince of Wales' Indian tour and the resumption of conflict in the Balkans.The finger of suspicion pointed at various times at suicide, at Mrs Cox,at George Griffiths,a coachman with a grudge against Charles Bravo,and at the remarkable figure of Florence Bravo herself. James Ruddick's meticulous recreation of the Bravo case brings its main characters and their times to vivid life.In 'Death at the Priory' he has created a gripping historical thriller and an intimate - and often startling - portrait of a woman,a marriage and a society.The brilliant conclusion uses new evidence discovered by the author to demonstrate conclusively who really murdered Charles Bravo. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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