The Amorous Dentist: A True Story by Robert Travers

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has a tear to spine top and back cover tail edge. Now enclosed in protective cover. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Subtitle: Being a True Account of the Adulterous Affairs, Murderous Deeds and Subsequent Extraordinary Trial of that Bizarre and Notorious Charlatan Mr Louis Bertrand

The Bertrand Affair, enacted in Sydney Town in the 1860s, had all the elements of a Victorian melodrama - a moustachioed villain with a penchant for disguise, a terrified, downtrodden wife, a brandy-soaked victim, and a married lady of high passions and doubtful.

Louis Bertrand, a bizarre society dentist skilled in the arts of mesmerism, embarked on a frenzied course of adultery and murder. Illicit passion, blackmail and extraordinary legal proceedings were played out to the hisses and boos of the titillated Victorian public.