Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise

A
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year

In
this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry
Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime
writing” (The Globe and Mail).

On
an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist
and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his
death surges across the English-speak...