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Article: Vilest murder under the sun; Critic's choice.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2005
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON
DURING 1943, an exotic murder mystery briefly knocked World War II off the front pages.
Sir Harry Oakes, a multimillionaire neighbour of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the Bahamas, was battered to death with a weapon that left triangular indentations in his skull.
The murderer then sprinkled an inflammable liquid over his corpse, around the room and down the stairs, and set it alight.
A tropical downpour, slanting through the open windows, doused the fire. The following morning his friend Harold Christie, who had been sleeping next door, found Oakes's half-charred body on the smouldering mattress, his ...