The Mayne Inheritance: A Gothic Tail of Murder, Madness and Scandal Across the Generations by Rosamond Siemon

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Creasing to covers. Previous owner has signed inside page and scribbled on half-title page.

Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth-century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller. Was it the murder victim's money that founded patriarch Patrick Mayne's Queen Street business empire? And were the whispered accusations of murder and genetic madness true?

For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands. (back cover)