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Few people can keep a secret safe. For a secret to have been kept for 231 years is incredible - especially when it is about the life of such a famous person as composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. If the contention of this story is valid, it will rock the world of classical music to the core.There has always been controversy over the death of Mozart, from just days after his death. History records that, on 5 December 1791, Mozart died at his home in Vienna, aged 35. And immediately, questions were asked about his death. And have continued to be asked since then. Did he die of Military Fever, as claimed, or was he poisoned? Did he actually die on that date? Why was his body tipped into a communal, unmarked grave, and covered in lime? Was his wife having an affair with his pupil, Süssmayr? Was Mozart having an affair with his pupil, Magdalena Hofdemel? Was Magdalena pregnant to him? Why did Magdalena's husband, Franz, slash her with a razor, and cut his own throat, the day after Mozart's 'death'? Did the newspapers wrongly report Franz's death as happening five days after it actually happened, to distance it from Mozart's supposed death?Welsh Opera singer, Lynn John, was performing in Opera New Zealand's production of Verdi's 'Il Trovatore', conducted by Eliano Mattiozzi, an Italian living in New Zealand. After a rehearsal, Eliano asked Lynn, "What would you say if I told you Mozart didn't die on December 5, 1791? That he faked his death and lived on?" Lynn replied, "I can think of a number of reasons why Mozart may have faked his death," I said, "... his debts, The Freemasons, his affairs, his wife ... but if he'd lived on, he wouldn't have kept quiet. He would have composed music." Then came the shock response: "He did, but through someone else - Gioacchino Rossini."This statement was so incredible that Lynn John spent the next two years researching the evidence for Eliano's assertion. Tragically, before the final pieces of the puzzle could be established, Eliano died of a heart attack.The book "A secret never to be told", written by Lynn John, lays out a scenario based on that research. It is a great detective story. Not so much a 'Whodunnit', as a 'Did he do it?' And 'What happened?' The story is fascinating, but the conclusion rests with the reader. What do you think?

This book " The Singapore Plotters" is a true story it really happened, and if anyone told me that I was gullible, and that I would fall for this destructive scam, I would not believe it. Until you have read this story you will not understand. Here is a synopsis of what the scam is about.It began with the following: My name is Mr. X and I work for the Bank of China in Singapore. I am the head of Internal Audit Department. While we were conducting the audit system check for the last year, I came across investments accounts that have been dormant for many years. All accounts belong to the same person and the monies total about EUR9,000,000 -- Nine Million British Pounds. The funds have been lying dormant for almost 25 years and your last name and country of origin is similar to that of the late investor.Due to the short time frame we have on this I have asked a colleague of mine coming to the UK to deliver this letter to you. Banking regulations require me to notify our regulatory bodies when making our yearly returns about these dormant accounts once they have been dormant for 25 years. The 25 years of these accounts should become due at the end of April 2005. The account holder was British and after extensive enquiries by me I discovered that the Investor migrated to Hong Kong in May of 1967 and died in Indonesia in October 1988.

A devastating true story of love, betrayal, and deceit.Chrissy: attractive, successful 40-year-old divorcee with three amazing children.Alexander Marc d'Ariken de Rothschild-Hatton: international financier, wealthy, charming and smooth-talking.It's not long before they fall madly in love. With the promise of marriage and a new baby on the way, Chrissy knows she has been given another chance at love.But then Alexander asks for a loan to help him get over a few cash-flow problems. And, before long, £500,000 of Chrissy's money has vanished - along with Alexander.After months of detective work, Chrissy finally tracks him down. But the reality of Alexander's true identity is far darker than she ever could have imagined ...

AS FEATURED IN BBC TWO'S BILLION DOLLAR DOWNFALL: THE DEALMAKER DOCUMENTARYTwo Wall Street reporters investigate the man entrusted with millions to make profits and end poverty but now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen frauds in history.'Gripping' Guardian***Arif Naqvi was a man with an immeasurable dream: to end world suffering, poverty and disease. His vision? Capitalism used for good, progress and profit.He persuaded politicians he could help stabilize the Middle East after 9/11 by providing jobs. He got Bill Gates to help him start a billion-dollar fund to improve health care in poor countries. He won the support of Obama's administration and was even appointed to boards by the UN and Interpol.The only problem? In 2019 Arif Naqvi was arrested on charges of money laundering and misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars. He now faces up to 291 years in jail. This is the true, jaw-dropping investigation into the smoke and mirrors world of The Key Man.***'Impeccably researched and sumptuous in its detail . . . It's a page-turner' The Economist'This book tells the story brilliantly. . . Well-paced and cleverly organised. It also draws some devastating conclusions' The Sunday Times'A pacy and deeply-reported tale' Financial TimesLONGLISTED FOR THE FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. <BR><BR>'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph<BR><BR>'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For Poison<BR><BR>'I literally consumed the book in just a few hungry sittings . . . most definitely a must read' DR SALEYHA AHSAN, filmmaker and journalist, Cambridge<BR><BR>In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned.<BR><BR>Then he was found - on the other side of the world, in Australia - and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man; also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures.<BR><BR>Was it a mental breakdown as he later claimed? Or were there more sinister reasons for his dramatic disappearance?<BR><BR>This is the definitive biography of Stonehouse, written by Julian Hayes, who, as the son of Stonehouse's nephew and lawyer, Michael Hayes, is uniquely placed to tell the story of this charismatic but deeply flawed politician.

IPPY Awards Silver Medalist (True Crime) 2022As Seen on VICE TV's The Devil You Know Season 2Ohio housewife Sherry Shriner grew to prominence as a social media cult leader, flourishing in the era of conspiracy theories and the 9/11 Truther movement.She preached the virtues of mysterious orgone energy and Christian prayer as defensive shields against the forces of darkness, including Lucifer and his demons; reptilian shape-shifters masquerading as human elites; the New World Order; cell phone towers; even hostile UFOs that flamed out over her home, visible only as shooting stars.Amazingly, she built a coterie of passionate devotees. The more outrageous the lie, the more fervent their belief.In 2017, she told follower Steven Mineo that his girlfriend, Barbara Rogers, was a witch who would kill him. A month later, Steven was dead, and Barbara was in jail charged with his murder.Steven's death proved Sherry's divinity to her followers, but in reality, he was just the latest casualty in a string of online trolling attacks that had left an earlier believer dead of suicide and still more cast into the outer darkness of cyberspace.Journalist Tony Russo follows Sherry Shriner's cult, digs into its bizarre beliefs, and reports on the shredded lives and reputations surrounding an otherwise nondescript woman who transformed herself into a web-based evangelist.The incredible story is documented in dogged reporting, surviving internet chats and transcripts, and voluminous police records.

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The closest you can get to the most dangerous minds.<BR><BR>Find out what truly makes a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve's Villanelle. Dr Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most disturbing psychopath cases of recent times - this is his extraordinary journey with the people society would rather forget.<BR><BR> Danny 'the Borderline' killed his defenceless friend without explanation. Tony 'the Conman' once tried to dupe someone into buying the Eiffel Tower. Jason 'the Liar' had a fantasy life that led to vicious murders around Europe. <BR><BR> With its page-turning true crime storytelling and searing first-hand experience that will leave you reeling, this book opens up a window onto the unseen world of those who operate in a void of human emotion ... and asks how we will stop them. <BR><BR>'The psychiatrist who created Killing Eve's anti-heroine' The Telegraph<BR>'The psychopath, revised' Psychology Today

Is thievery the second big scandal of the Catholic Church? Get the facts. Priests were not the only ones engaged in deviant behavior, and sex abuse was not the Church’s only form of criminality; thousands more priests and staff members were embezzling and stealing, giving root to the thievery scandal in the Catholic Church.THIEVERY is a documentary based upon the collection of ninety-seven (non-sex abuse) cases uncovered through a comprehensive investigation of legal cases, newspaper stories, and articles reported from 2002 to 2018. Throughout this period, sex abuse scandals dominated comment about the Catholic Church. And rightfully so. It’s estimated that priests imposed their will upon over 100,000 innocent children. THIEVERY uses actual news stories to illustrate the types of financial mismanagement perpetrated by unethical priests and staff members. It reveals how depraved bishops covered up countless cases of theft. It demonstrates how Church officials failed to hold bishops and priests accountable. It conveys a sense of urgency for action to be taken by the Church hierarchy.With estimates of thievery in the U.S. Catholic Church now surpassing $1.2B annually, legal costs for sexual abuse cases escalating, operational expenses growing, the number of lapsed Catholics increasing, and the percentage of contributions dwindling, THIEVERY raises the daunting question: Is the Catholic Church too big to fail?

A thoroughly researched and authoritative page-turner about this unprecedented operation — and bust<BR> <BR>Mark Coakley lifts the veil on the riveting story of a group of criminals — Ontario police would call them “a gang with no name” — whose most famous exploit was turning an abandoned Molson beer factory north of Toronto into a giant indoor jungle of cannabis. The operation produced tens of millions of dollars in profits and involved gun smuggling, slavery, violence, pornography, and running cocaine and other illegal chemicals.<BR> <BR>When the grow-op was raided by police in 2003, the massive scale of the operation drew international media attention. The true masterminds behind the operation were not arrested until 2011, and it was only then that the real story behind North America’s biggest grow-op came to light.

Following the discovery of the decapitated corpse of Arthur Rochford Manby in his nineteen-room mansion in Taos, New Mexico, there quickly arose two schools of thought as to the event. One sect accepted that he was gruesomely murdered, while the second held to the belief that he had staged his death and left behind the cadaver of a stranger. The case was a bizarre enigma wrapped in riddles, confusion, betrayal and greed. Finally for posterity, and as relief to the guilty, it was labeled an unsolved crime. Today it is referred to as the "Manby Mystery of Taos." This book contains very little mystery. Rather, it is the tragic account of Manby and his 35-year career in manipulation, extortion, high-grading and murder. Arriving in New Mexico from England in 1883, the 24-year-old Manby began his personal odyssey for El Dorado: the dream of building a vast empire in the Southwest. He finally does so in 1913 when becoming the owner of the 61,000 acre Martinez Grant of Taos. But after three years it slips from his grasp and he is left nearly penniless. In his last years he gradually decays mentality and emotionally. Looked upon as an eccentric, no one realizes how ill he has become. Finally having a falling out with a quartet of compatriots, in July, 1929, he is murdered and decapitated.