The Damnation of John Donellan by Elizabeth Cooke
In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial, his brother-in-law, Captain John 'Diamond' Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune was tried for his murder. Was Donellan guilty?
A masterpiece of well-founded suspicions based on first-hand evidence -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *
A fascinating account of a Georgian cause celebre.. just as Kate Summerscale did brilliantly in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Cooke focuses on legal procedure and forensic evidence to gripping effect -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *
I read this with great enjoyment. The author has produced a forensically detailed examination of a murder with a witty picture of the social world of the gentry at the end of the eighteenth century. Her eye and ear for the period are unerring. A delight. -- Judith Flanders * The Invention of Murder *
Highly readable ... gripping * Daily Express *
A fascinating account of a Georgian cause celebre.. just as Kate Summerscale did brilliantly in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Cooke focuses on legal procedure and forensic evidence to gripping effect -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *
I read this with great enjoyment. The author has produced a forensically detailed examination of a murder with a witty picture of the social world of the gentry at the end of the eighteenth century. Her eye and ear for the period are unerring. A delight. -- Judith Flanders * The Invention of Murder *
Highly readable ... gripping * Daily Express *
Elizabeth Cooke has been writing for over twenty years under the name Elizabeth McGregor and has published ten novels: Little White Lies was televised by the BBC and in The Ice Child she turned to a historical theme for the first time with the story of the Franklin expedition. She lives in Dorset.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846684838 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846684838 |
| Title | The Damnation of John Donellan |
| Author | Elizabeth Cooke |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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