Word: belgravia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prices were way up, and Britain's economic forecasts were way down. In the drawing rooms of Mayfair and Belgravia, however, the smart set was talking about something considerably more interesting-a mysterious, brutal murder involving a titled family that might have come from a West End thriller...
...killing had occurred in the hallowed precincts of Belgravia itself. At 10:30 one night, the estranged wife of Lord Lucan, the great-great-grandson of the misguided commander who ordered the charge of the Light Brigade, burst through the door of the Plumbers' Arms, a pub near her house. With blood spurting from several head wounds, she screamed: "Murder! Murder! I think my neck has been broken. He tried to kill me. I think I am dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body...