The temptress : the scandalous life of Alice de Janze and the mysterious death of Lord Erroll / Paul Spicer

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The heiress -- The countess -- Kenya -- Raymund and the coup de foudre -- The shooting at the Gare du Nord -- Freedom and exile -- The bride in black and white -- Return to Happy Valley -- The gathering storm -- The new elements -- The murder of Lord Erroll -- The trial of Jock Delves Broughton -- The case for Alice -- A green bedroom full of flowers.

Glamorous American multi-millionairess Alice de Janzé scandalized 1920s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover--whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as Kenya's Happy Valley, she became the lover of handsome womanizer Joss Hay, Lord Erroll. In 1941, Erroll was shot in his car on an isolated road. A cuckolded husband was brought to trial and acquitted, and the crime remained tantalizingly unsolved. Biographer Paul Spicer, whose mother was a confidante of Alice's, used personal letters and his own extensive research to piece together what really happened that fateful evening. He brings to life an era of unimaginable wealth and indulgence, where people changed bed partners as easily as they would order a cocktail, and where jealousy and hidden passions brewed.--From publisher description.