![]() ![]() ![]() The Dead Duke, his Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse is a historical true-crime story. ![]() Tell us about The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse… So - and you know where we’re going with this by now - Piu is here to give us the intel on the whole lurid affair.īorn in Calcutta and raised in the UK, Piu has lived in Paris for the last decade, where she found the inspiration for her first book, about the French, called They Eat Horses, Don’t They? Liu talks double lives, intensive research and slogging… The Druce Portland affair was one of the most drawn-out legal sagas the Uk has ever seen, and Piu weaves an eccentric tale of tunnelling dukes, desperate widows and dirty, rotten scoundrels, spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Simply scroll down a bit, a little bit more, nearly there, to see that triumphant review. But don’t despair, take your head out of your hands. If macabre Victorian litigation is your thing then you’ll be kicking yourself for forgetting to read our review of The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse. ![]()
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