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Cover: 9780750997232 | A Desperate Business | The Murder of Muriel McKay | Simon Farquhar
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A Desperate Business
The Murder of Muriel McKay
Buch von Simon Farquhar
Sprache: Englisch

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Winter 1969. Rupert Murdoch ends a successful year, in which he has moved to England and bought two ailing newspapers, The Sun and the News of the World, by appearing on The David Frost Show. Among the millions watching are two men captivated by the large sums of money being discussed. A plan is hatched to kidnap Mrs Murdoch for a cash ransom. But the plan goes wrong. Following Murdoch's Rolls Royce from the News of the World offices to a house in Wimbledon, the two men are unaware that Murdoch has gone to Australia for Christmas, and loaned the car to his friend and colleague, Alick McKay. The following day, Mrs McKay is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand £1 million, but Mr McKay has nothing like that kind of money. A Desperate Business is the story of a case that gripped the nation, the first kidnap and ransom ever to occur in Britain. It is also a story of ingenious detection, of tragedy, and of a very different Britain, hostile to immigration, on the cusp of the Murdoch takeover of its cultural and political identity, with a desperately ill-equipped police force having to deal with a new crime, and a new type of newspaper.
Winter 1969. Rupert Murdoch ends a successful year, in which he has moved to England and bought two ailing newspapers, The Sun and the News of the World, by appearing on The David Frost Show. Among the millions watching are two men captivated by the large sums of money being discussed. A plan is hatched to kidnap Mrs Murdoch for a cash ransom. But the plan goes wrong. Following Murdoch's Rolls Royce from the News of the World offices to a house in Wimbledon, the two men are unaware that Murdoch has gone to Australia for Christmas, and loaned the car to his friend and colleague, Alick McKay. The following day, Mrs McKay is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand £1 million, but Mr McKay has nothing like that kind of money. A Desperate Business is the story of a case that gripped the nation, the first kidnap and ransom ever to occur in Britain. It is also a story of ingenious detection, of tragedy, and of a very different Britain, hostile to immigration, on the cusp of the Murdoch takeover of its cultural and political identity, with a desperately ill-equipped police force having to deal with a new crime, and a new type of newspaper.
Über den Autor

Simon Farquhar is the CWA-nominated author of A Dangerous Place (THP, 2016). He writes regularly for The Times, The Guardian and The Independent, appears on true crime documentaries, and has also written for the stage and radio.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780750997232
ISBN-10: 0750997230
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Farquhar, Simon
Hersteller: The History Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 241 x 165 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Simon Farquhar
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,714 kg
Artikel-ID: 121314538
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