Love & Madness: The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (Paperback)

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This book highlights the eighteenth-century murder of an earl's mistress and the maddening love which led to it. The author delves into the lives of Martha Ray, the Earl of Sandwich, and Martha's murderer James Hackman. Hackman had been rebuffed in his marriage proposal to Martha, an event he was...

from TheFlamingoReads

An interesting little book that is a very quick and easy read. At less than 150 pages (for the story proper - it also includes poems and letters purportedly written by Martha and James) you can knock this one out in a day or a couple of nights. It's the story of Martha Ray (or Reay, as it is some...

from TheFlamingoReads

An interesting little book that is a very quick and easy read. At less than 150 pages (for the story proper - it also includes poems and letters purportedly written by Martha and James) you can knock this one out in a day or a couple of nights. It's the story of Martha Ray (or Reay, as it is some...

from Jaie

This one is so short it's a one day read really. The fairly unknown story of Martha Ray the sometime singer all time mistress to the unpopular and borish fourth Earl of Sandwich. I'm tempted to dismiss this book. It's good, and the story is well covered, yet the author has a bad habit of jumping ...