Book 2005

Sentimental Murder

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Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 2005

Crime, great britain
Crimes of passion
Murder, great britain
Criminal investigation

JOHN MONTAGU, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was a tall gangling man with 'strong legs and arms' and a ruddy appearance that led the novelist Frances Burney, when she first met him in 1775, to compare him with a rough-hewn Jack Tar: 'he is a tall, stout man & looks weather-proof as any sailor in the navy'.