FORMULA FOR MURDER
THE ICI MYSTERY






Formula for Murder 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.

But 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.

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