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UNNATURAL MURDER: POISON AT THE COURT OF JAMES I

by Anne Somerset

Weidenfeld, 20, pp. 434

The death of Sir Thomas Overbury, apparently from poison, in the Tower of London in 1613, and the subsequent trials for his murder, are the most sensational scandal in English history. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe, with which the Overbury case has its parallels, might have matched it in impact had Thorpe been Prime Minister rather than merely the leader of a small party. Yet where the charges against Thorpe discredited an individual and his personal entourage, the Overbury trials made a whole system of ...

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