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'Simon Farquhar succeeds brilliantly (and with real empathy for all
concerned) in setting the story in its historical, social and
emotional context, with the victim and her family always at the
heart of his writing ... A Desperate Business is an absolute
must-read.' - Carol Ann Lee, the bestselling author of The Murders
at White House Farm Winter 1969. Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in
Britain, has bought The Sun and the News of the World, immediately
provoking outrage by serialising the sensational memoirs of
Christine Keeler. Watching him being interviewed on television, two
men hatch a plot to kidnap Murdoch's wife for a million-pound
ransom. But the plan goes wrong. Following Murdoch's Rolls-Royce to
a house in Wimbledon, they are unaware that he has gone to
Australia for Christmas and loaned the car to his friend and
colleague, Alick McKay. On Monday, 29 December 1969, Alick arrives
home to find his wife, Muriel, has vanished. She was never seen
again. Acclaimed author and journalist Simon Farquhar has spent
three years investigating one of the most frightening and
perplexing mysteries in British criminal history, which began with
a case of mistaken identity and led to one of the first convictions
for murder without a body being found. Presenting a wealth of new
information and, for the first time, a possible solution, A
Desperate Business is a meticulous and sensitive account of a
tragedy. It is a story of greed, unimaginable cruelty, and
newspaper rivalry, but most of all, the story of an adored woman
who never came home.
Shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger award
for non-fiction. In September 1970, two boys met in the playground
on their first day at secondary school in North London. They formed
what would be described at the Old Bailey thirty years later as 'a
unique and wicked bond'. Between 1982 and 1986, striking near
lonely railway stations in London and the Home Counties, their
partnership took them from rape to murder. Three police forces
pooled their resources to catch them in the biggest criminal
manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper Enquiry. A Dangerous Place is
the first full-length account of the crimes of John Duffy and David
Mulcahy. Told by the son of one of the police officers who led the
enquiry, exhaustively researched and with unprecedented access,
this is the story of two of the most notorious serial killers of
the twentieth century and the times they operated in. It is the
story of the women who died at their hands. It is the story of the
women who survived them, and who had the courage to ensure justice
was done. And it is the story of a father, told by a son.
In his Aberdeen flat, a young man stakes everything on a one-night
stand. But does she give a fuck? "Rainbow Kiss" is a play about
life in the Granite City, a world where work is meaningless and
emasculating, where drink an drugs are the only painkillers, and
where cheap sex can cost you everything. This is Simon Farquhar
first play for the Royal Court Theatre, where it premieres in April
2006.
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