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Murdered Midas : a millionaire, his gold mine, and a strange death on an island paradise

Murdered Midas : a millionaire, his gold mine, and a strange death on an island paradise

Book 2019

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 A...