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ID: 266302
Title: Massey Murder
Author: Charlotte Gray
Narrator: Susan Duerden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:53:00
Language: English
Release date: 10-08-13
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, North America, General
Summary:
In February 1915, a member of one of Canadas wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies, an 18-year-old domestic servant, quickly confessed. But who was the victim here? Charles ''Bert'' Massey, a scion of a famous family, or the frightened, perhaps mentally unstable Carrie, a penniless British immigrant?
When the brilliant lawyer Hartley Dewart, QC, took on her case, his grudge against the powerful Masseys would fuel a dramatic trial that pitted the old order against the new, wealth and privilege against virtue and honest hard work. Set against a backdrop of the Great War in Europe and the changing face of a nation, this sensational crime is brought to vivid life for the first time.
As in her previous best-selling book, Gold Diggers - now in production as a Discovery Television miniseries - multi-award-winning historian and biographer Charlotte Gray has created a captivating narrative rich in detail and brimming with larger-than-life personalities, as she shines a light on a central moment in our past.
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