Death of a Tycoon : An Insider's Account of the Fall of Robert Maxwell by Nick Davies - 1993

First U.S. Edition, 1993. St. Martin's hard cover in fine condition, in fine dust jacket protected in clear, archival polyester cover. 346 tight, clean pages, index. A true crime mystery. In 1990, Robert Maxwell, a British publishing tycoon, dined at a five-star hotel in the Canary Islands, then boarded his ship, which sailed into the night. The next morning, Maxwell was nowhere to be found. What happened to him? Davies, a journalist at Maxwell's Daily Mirror, a confidant of the publisher, explores the mysteries. Was Maxwell Communications a legitimate enterprise or a vast money-laundering scheme? Why did Israel give Maxwell a virtual state funeral? First published in U.K. in 1992 as "The Unknown Maxwell."