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Earth to earth : the true crime classic of the lives and violent deaths of a Devon farming family

Cornwell, John, 1940-2025

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Cornwell's classic investigation into the violent deaths of these unhappy siblings told a story of a farming family struggling under unbearable pressures, their violent deaths, the police investigation and the proceedings of the inquest. The official verdict was that there had been a suicide pact, but Cornwell decided to revisit the evidence 40 years after the book was first published, and he finds that there were anomalies in the evidence suggesting alternative, criminal scenarios, and the misery that preceded these savage deaths suggested even darker elements. Were the Luxtons scapegoats of local malice, or victims of a murderous family conflict, stricken by a dire ancestral curse? This new edition includes a postscript in which the author describes the lengths that the great poet Ted Hughes, a neighbour of the Luxtons, went to try and suppress publication of the book.