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04316aam a2200517Ii 4500 001 7372BCE0323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 190909s2019 oncabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1443460168 020 $a 9781443460163 020 $a 1443449342 020 $a 9781443449342 035 $a (OCoLC)1119623230 040 $a BDP $b eng $e rda $c BDP $d TOH $d OCLCO $d CNCAR $d OCLCF $d CNWPU $d GK8 $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-cn-on $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-cn-on $a n-cn--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-cn $a n-cn-on $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-cn-on 050 4 $a HV6535.B3 $b G73 2019 082 04 $a 364.15203979 $2 23 082 04 $a 941.084 $2 23 100 1 $a Gray, Charlotte, $d 1948- $e author. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98016748 245 10 $a Murdered Midas : $b a millionaire, his gold mine, and a strange death on an island paradise / $c Charlotte Gray. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Toronto, Ontario, Canada : $b HarperCollins, $c [2019] 300 $a xxvii, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 340 $p map $2 rdaill $0 http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1008 340 $p plate 340 $p illustration $2 rdaill $0 http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1014 500 $a A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of the infamous Sir Harry Oakes as only Charlotte Gray can tell it. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and "richest man in the Empire," was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as "the crime of the century." The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the Governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumours were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired - from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who, despite his wealth and position, was never able to have justice. 600 10 $a Oakes, Harry, $c Sir, $d 1874-1943. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82210797 650 0 $a Murder $z Bahamas. 650 0 $a Gold miners $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Gold mines and mining $z Ontario. 600 17 $a Oakes, Harry, $c Sir, $d 1874-1943. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/104149 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/104149 650 7 $a Gold miners. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/944463 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/944463 650 7 $a Gold mines and mining. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/944469 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/944469 650 7 $a Murder. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1029781 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1029781 651 7 $a Bahamas. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205834 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205834 651 7 $a Canada. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204310 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204310 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018015452.0 952 $l CGPC482 $d 20220526010630.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7372BCE0323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search