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Looking For Madeleine: Updated 2019 Edition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Looking For Madeleine: Updated 2019 Edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anthony Summers
By (author) Robbyn Swan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 232,Width 157
Category/GenreTrue Crime
ISBN/Barcode 9781472211613
ClassificationsDewey:364.154092
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Imprint Headline Book Publishing
Publication Date 11 September 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

LOOKING FOR MADELEINE is the must-read account that the online haters tried to silence. Its award-winning authors, Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, feature in the NETFLIX series 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann'. "EXPLOSIVE" Sun "COMPELLING" Daily Telegraph The book: Identifies the blunders made during the police search for Madeleine. Draws on confidential police sources. Analyses the thousands of pages of the Portuguese police dossier. Pinpoints the misreading of forensic evidence that - for a time - turned Kate and Gerry McCann into formal suspects. Follows the clues indicating that the McCanns' apartment was watched, that the apartment had been visited by a phoney "charity collector. Reports, in frightening detail, on the many earlier sex assaults on British children in the area. Twelve years on, as Scotland Yard and Portuguese investigators continue their work, the Yard is reportedly focusing on a specific suspect. A senior officer told the authors: "The case is solvable." What readers have said about LOOKING FOR MADELEINE: "Lucidly written, superbly researched...non-judgemental...An excellent, fascinating update." "A wonderful book. I was engrossed from beginning to end." "Extensive research...plausible and sensible conclusions..."

Author Biography

Anthony Summers (Author) Anthony Summers is the award-winning author of eight bestselling non-fiction books. As a BBC journalist, he covered events in the United States and wars in Vietnam and the Middle East for Panorama. His most recent book The Eleventh Day, co-authored with Robbyn Swan, was a Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. It also won the Crime Writer's Association's Gold Dagger award for best non-fiction - which the first edition of this book also won. Summers is the only author to have won two Gold Dagger awards for non-fiction. Robbyn Swan (Author) Robbyn Swan has worked some of the biggest stories of this century and the last - from the rise of the American Mafia, to the Hiss spy case, to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She's delivered scoops on FBI Director Hoover's sexuality, Richard Nixon's White House pill-popping, and Frank Sinatra's links to Lucky Luciano.

Reviews

A fair account which doesn't shy away from criticism where it is due, but which handles the tragedy with sensitivity - Reader Reviews Well written and widely researched. This book provided more insight into what has been happening behind the scenes - Reader Review An excellent and fascinating update on the on-going mystery, lucidly written and superbly researched. Comprehensive, revealing, totally factual and non-judgemental - Reader Review A wonderful book. I was engrossed from beginning to end - Reader Review