Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Author Perrin, a BBC journalist, only two minor characters in the book are fictional. His narrative, covering a 21-year span, captures the period with irony, authority and zest. Save for the delicious Daisy Newman, who used her loot to settle into suburban domesticity, virtually everyone who was directly or indirectly involved in the Edwardian caper came to a sad end, despite a noble battle by Sir Arthur Vicars to clear his name. Indeed, his cause became so famous that a relative of Vicars, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, offered at one point to join the fray. Alas...