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Murdered Midas
- A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of the infamous Sir Harry Oakes as only Charlotte Gray can tell it.
On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist, and "richest man in the Empire", was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial center, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as "the crime of the century".
The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumors were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades.
Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired - from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long-cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who despite his wealth and position was never able to have justice.
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- Nellie Ko
- 2020-06-14
History and mystery and crime fiction all in one.
Interesting read and a great way to dig in for a slice of the history of Canadian gold rush.
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- JL
- 2020-01-25
Interesting... annoyed with narrator's mock accent
Very interesting story about the 1943 murder of Canadian gold miner, Harry Oakes who had moved to the Bahamas, and knew the ex-King of England who was Governor of the Bahamas at the time.
The narrator should know his limitations when it comes to the Bahamian accent. When he uses the sing-song voice it comes off as mocking Bahamian speech. (Thankfully?) There were very few quotes from Bahamians.
There is very little about the Bahamas itself, but it makes clear how segregated it was in the 1940s.
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- Slick
- 2019-10-04
Fascinating
Well written and researched
very interesting story and characters. I wish the same narrator read some of Gray’s other books
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