Formula
For Murder
The ICI Mystery... a fascinating book by R.M.Bevan
Formula for Murder, by R.M.Bevan, is
a study into a double tragedy that occurred seventy-five years ago.
It reopens the case into the deaths of industrialist Roscoe Brunner
and his authoress wife Ethel and explores their role in the incredible
events leading to the formation of Imperial Chemical Industries
(I.C.I.)
At the centre of the intrigue was Sir Alfred Mond, a Government
Minister who knocked on the door of greatness but never quite aspired
to his ambition of becoming Prime Minister.
Conceived over a cup of American coffee and put together inside
twelve remarkable weeks during the closing months of 1926, the creation
of I.C.I. involved a merger of four companies with 70,000 workers
and more than £65 million of assets. It came to be a testimony
to the single-minded determination and business vision of Sir Alfred
Mond and Sir Harry McGowan.
Yet at the back of it all was a catalogue of happenings that, to
this day, have never been satisfactorily explained.
How and why did Roscoe and Ethel Brunner meet their deaths?
Who tried to suppress the truth by manipulating a woefully inept
police investigation and a sham of inquest?
Why was the official Brunner file, relating to what was ostensibly
a straightforward domestic tragedy, classified with Royal and State
archives, locked away under Britain’s ‘Hundred Years
Rule’ until 2026?
What was the secret that the Brunners took to their grave and who
was prepared to go to any lengths to
protect the fragile foundations of I.C.I.?
Formula for Murder is about a tragic conflict of loyalty, big business,
ambition, power, politics, treachery and murder. It is also a story
about Victorian entrepreneurism and an almost rags-to-riches rise
of two families, from humble beginnings to the heart of government
and marriage into the Royal families of Europe.
Most of all, it is about a compelling mystery that is
supposed never to have existed.
ISBN:
0949001 12 X
Price: £9.00 (Postage free)
CC Publishing, Martins Lane, Hargrave, Chester, CH3 7RX
Tel:
01829 741651
READ
THE COMPELLING FIRST CHAPTER - CLICK HERE