Deadly Triangle, Susan Goldenberg
Deadly Triangle, Susan Goldenberg
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Deadly Triangle
"Famous Architect, His Wife, Their Chauffeur, and Murder Most Foul, The"

Author: Susan Goldenberg

Narrator: Jennifer Blom

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2022

Synopsis

"The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. Debate continues even today as to which one of them really was responsible. Francis and Alma had moved to Bournemouth, England, when Victoria had ostracized them for their scandalous, flagrant affair while Francis was married to his first wife. Their life in Bournemouth was tangled. Francis became lush and impotent. Sex-starved, Alma seduced George, previously a virgin. They conducted their affair in her upstairs bedroom with her and Francis’s six-year-old son in a nearby bed, “sleeping” she said, and the near-deaf Francis, apparently unaware, downstairs in his armchair in a drunken stupor. The lovers were tried together at the historic high-profile Old Bailey Criminal Court in London, U.K., resulting in intense public interest and massive, frenzied media coverage. The trial sparked widespread debate over sexual mores and social strata distinctions."

About Susan Goldenberg

Susan Goldenberg is the author of nine books and has won a Canadian Author’s Award and a Canadian Business Press Editors’ Award. She has written for the Sunday New York Times, the Financial Post, and the Financial Times of Canada, and she currently pens articles for Canada’s History magazine and writes a heritage column on the district of Toronto, where she lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on August 12, 2022

At first, I thought that this was a book I read long ago about an American architect and murder, until I took a closer look. When I got further into it, the setting is British Columbia, Canada and later on England. Architect Rattenbury became successful in Victoria, British Columbia, despite his sha......more

Goodreads review by George on May 26, 2024

For some reason, after hearing of this book (and mistaking it for a novel), I decided to pick up Rattenbury which had been neglected in my TBR pile, and to read it first as background. Well both books are non-fiction, although "Rattenbury" covers the whole life of the western Canadian architect, whil......more

Goodreads review by Star on October 29, 2022

Thank you NetGalley and Dundurn Press for accepting my request to read and review Deadly Triangle. Author: Susan Goldenberg Published: 11/08/22 Genre: History -- True Crime There are no spoilers. This murder occurred in 1935. The synopsis is spot-on. The first third of the book is slow and dry. The rem......more

Goodreads review by Thebooktrail on October 17, 2022

Discover the locations in the novel A novel to transport you deep inside a real life scandal This story fascinated me from the beginning since it is about a real life scandal which happened back in 1935. It’s a tale of two countries – Canada and England and a man who tried to run from scandal. Francis......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on November 18, 2022

I have really been getting into historical true crime books, and this one was an excellent addition to my tally! It follows the lives and subsequent tragedies that befell renowned Canadian architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, his much younger wife Alma, and their chauffeur George Percy Stoner. I thin......more

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