{"product_id":"9780750997232","title":"A Desperate Business : The Murder of Muriel McKay","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Farquhar, Simon, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 27\/10\/2022,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 16 Plates, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: The History Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: The History Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: True crime, British \u0026amp; Irish history,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780750997232\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eWinter 1969. Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in Britain, has bought The Sun and the News of the World, immediately provoking outrage by serialising the sensational memoirs of Christine Keeler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWatching him being interviewed on television, two men hatch a plot to kidnap Murdoch's wife for a million-pound ransom. But the plan goes wrong. Following Murdoch's Rolls-Royce to a house in Wimbledon, they are unaware that he has gone to Australia for Christmas and loaned the car to his friend and colleague, Alick McKay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Monday, 29 December 1969, Alick arrives home to find his wife, Muriel, has vanished. She was never seen again. Acclaimed author and journalist Simon Farquhar has spent three years investigating one of the most frightening and perplexing mysteries in British criminal history, which began with a case of mistaken identity and led to one of the first convictions for murder without a body being found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting a wealth of new information and, for the first time, a possible solution, A Desperate Business is a meticulous and sensitive account of a tragedy. It is a story of greed, unimaginable cruelty, and newspaper rivalry, but most of all, the story of an adored woman who never came home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43448312135917,"sku":"9780750997232","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780750997232_187dcc1c-26a1-4026-9151-c1a4502d417a.jpg?v=1678203787","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780750997232","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}