Murder on the Verandah: Love and Betrayal in British Malaya

by EricLawlor (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $30.48

  During the first half of 20th century, the British ruled Malaya with an unhealthy blend of devout surburban aspiration of the traditional Home Counties variety and extreme cruelty to the native population, something far from the love-hate relationship that characterised the European in India. Petty, hypocritical and generally terribly unhappy, the British never counted Malaya as home, and spent their time wishing they weren't there and behaving as if they weren't. Into this world of race hatreds came Ethel Proudlock, and on Sunday 23rd April 1911, after attending Mass, she drove home and killed her lover. Author, Eric Lawlor travels to Malaya to discover whether real-life is stranger than fiction.