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'A riveting read ... a dark story of murder and deceit with verve and insight' John Woolf, author of The Wonders

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A 19TH-CENTURY CIRCUS LEGEND

On 28 November 1911 a retired showman died violently at his home in North London. Known to the world as…

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Before reading this book I'd never heard of Lord George, who was a travelling showman in Victorian England about the same time as Buffalo Bill was touring with his Wild West show. This book tells the life story of this interesting self-made man as well as taking another look at the strange circumstances which surrounded his death

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