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<p>In the spirit of Frances Osborne s The Bolter, this fascinating life of femme fatale and gorgeous Chicago heiress, Alice de Janz , offers a solution to the decadesold murder ...</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>The 1941 fatal shooting of British earl Joss Erroll in Kenya made headlines worldwide (and was the subject of the book and movie White Mischief). A cuckolded husband was acquitted, and now Kenyan-born former oil executive Spicer intriguingly fingers his late mother&rsquo;s friend, Countess Alice de Janz&eacute;, Joss&rsquo;s discarded mistress. Alice&rsquo;s complicated and violent love life was possibly attributable to bipolar disorder and to abandonment by her father, a self-made American millionaire, when Alice was 13. Alice married a French count, Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric de Janz&eacute;, and to escape the stuffy confines of French society, the couple spent much of their time in Kenya. There Alice had two love affairs that, according to Spicer, goaded Alice to violence&#58; she made a botched murder-suicide attempt in 1927 when English aristocrat Raymund de Trafford rejected her, yet they married in 1932 (Alice had already left her husband). Alice had also begun a two-

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Author

Paul Spicer, (Paul G. B.)

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312379704

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.49 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14