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The Temptress
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The Temptress (2010) (edit title/settings)

The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll

by Paul Spicer (Author) (edit contributors)

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In the spirit of Frances Osborne’s The Bolter, this fascinating life of femme fatale and gorgeous Chicago heiress, Alice de Janzé, offers a solution to the decades-old murder of Lord Erroll the story at the center of James Fox’s acclaimed book and movie "White Mischief."

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A glamorous American multi-millionairess, Alice de Janzé scandalized 1920’s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide in the Gare du Nord. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A glamorous American multi-millionairess, Alice de Janzé scandalized 1920’s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide in the Gare du Nord. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as Kenya’s Happy Valley, she became the lover of the handsome womanizer, Joss Hay, Lord Erroll. In 1941, Erroll was shot in his car on an isolated road. A cuckolded husband was brought to trial and acquitted, and the crime remained tantalizingly unsolved. Paul Spicer, whose mother was a confidante of Alice’s, used personal letters and his own extensive research to piece together what really happened that fateful evening. He brings to life an era of unimaginable wealth and indulgence, where people changed bed partners as easily as they would order a cocktail, and where jealousy and hidden passions brewed. At the heart of The Temptress is Alice, whose seductive charms no man could resist, and whose unfulfilled quest for love ended in her own suicide at age forty-two.

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  • Kenya: Colonial estates where the true story plays out

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It was around 3:00 A.M. on January 24, 1941, when the body of Josslyn Hay, the earl of Erroll, was discovered lying curled up and facedown on the floor of his Buick car in Kenya, East Africa.

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Prologue
Part 1
1. The heiress
2. The countess
3. Kenya
4. Raymund and the Coup de Foudre
5. The shooting at the Gare du Nord
6. Freedom and exile
7. The bride

Part 2
8. The return to Happy Valley
9. The gathering storm
10. The new elements
11. The murder of Lord Erroll
12. The trial of Jock Delves Broughton
13. The case for Alice
14. A green bedroom full of flowers

Epilogue: the missing letter and the great beyond
Author's note
Cast of characters
Family trees
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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This book is in True Crime-historical. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: Unsolved. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Paul Spicer (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780312379704
Page Count: 262

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  • Library of Congress: HV6535 K43 N347 2010
  • Dewey: 364.152'3092
Popular Tags
  1. africa, 
  2. happy valley set, 
  3. kenya, 
  4. murder, 
  5. socialite, 
  6. true crime 

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  • White Mischief
  • The Bolter

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