A Matter of Honour
The insults that drew men to duels were often petty - a splash, a scrape or a disparaging word could all lead to pistols at dawn. When Charles Hawkey watched James Seton make a play for his beautiful wife, there was only one way to respond. The two men were honour bound to meet in a duel, but only one of them would return. Theirs was the last fatal duel on England's soil, and newspapers clamoured to give news of the death and scandal. Was Isabella Hawkey as blameless as she seemed or did she draw the rich Seton into a fatal romance? Did Charles Hawkey ever doubt his wife's fidelity? Was honour served? Martyn Beardsley has unearthed new inform…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9568476-2-1
- EAN: 9780956847621
- Produktnummer: 12042336
- Verlag: Bookline and Thinker Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.1 cm 266 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 266
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Martyn Beardsley has written 35 books, including Deadly Winter, the biography of the explorer Sir John Franklin.
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