Mayne Inheritance.
Title:
Mayne Inheritance.
Author:
Siemon, Rosamond.
ISBN:
9780702255304
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Mayne Family Chart -- Chapter 1: A Profitable Murder -- Chapter 2: Ireland to Australia -- Chapter 3: Law Courts & Land Deals -- Chapter 4: Consolidating an Empire -- Chapter 5: In and Out of Council -- Chapter 6: Life in Queen Street -- Chapter 7: Crisis After Crisis -- Chapter 8: Out of the Ashes -- Chapter 9: A Family Ostracised -- Chapter 10: The Tobita Murder and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 11: The Burden of Inheritance -- Chapter 12: Maynes and the University of Queensland -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Copyright.
Abstract:
Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller. Was it the murder victim's money that founded patriarch Patrick Mayne's Queen Street business empire? Were the whispered accusations of murder and genetic madness true? For 150 years, scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands. 'A gothic tale of murder, madness and scandal across the generations
Mad nuns, suspicious doctors, drownings, murder as foul as fevered imaginations can devise.' - Rosemary Sorensen, The Courier-Mail 'This real-life thriller has been selling and selling
and has rarely left the bestseller lists.' - Matt Condon, Sun Herald.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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