Laura Thompson is author of Somerset Maugham Award-winning THE DOGS: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF GREYHOUND RACING, and AGATHA CHRISTIE: AN ENGLISH MYSTERY. She is now filming a major ITV programme on Agatha Christie.
Gripping... an exceptionally thorough examination' * Daily Mail
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Sensational... the most minutely researched and brilliantly told
account ever' * Mail on Sunday *
'Tantalises with fresh evidence' * The Daily Telegraph *
A compelling new examination of the crime and a brilliant detective
mind... fascinating... Thompson gives us a tantalising range of
alternative scenarios in this superb anatomy of a murder' *
Independent *
This gripping read is part social history, part detective story...
fascinating' * Bella *
'Thompson delivers the goods: a compelling narrative, hypotheses
based on evidence and a possible solution. But she goes further,
putting the murder in the telling context of British aristocracy
and social attitudes towards it' * The Times *
'Thompson is a fine writer and one can't help admiring the way she
breathes new life into an intriguing tale' * Literary Review *
'[Laura Thompson] gets her teeth into the case, drawing on Lucan's
friends the Shand-Kydds, finding a new source in an anonymous Lucan
schoolfriend, and finally producing a narrative which is
sympathetic to Lucan, but less so to his wife' * TLS *
'Thompson re-examines a tantalizingly ambiguous crime, delving deep
into a complicated story and emerging with a gripping narrative
that offers a fresh perspective and new solutions to one of the
most infamous cases of the 20th century' * Good Book Guide. *
'Thompson approaches the mystery with forensic skill, [reaching] a
suitably enigmatic conclusion' * Daily Mail. *
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