Rebecca Gowers
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The Swamp of Death: A True Tale of Victorian Lies and Murder
Rebecca Gowers
In 1889, Reginald Birchall, a well-bred young Englishman, advertises in the London papers for a partner to buy a share in his Canadian horse farm. Two young men of good family—Douglas Pelly and Frederick Benwell—sign on. But when their troubled journey to Canada stalls inexplicably in Niagara Falls and Benwell mysteriously disappears, Pelly thinks Birchall might be trying to kill him. Then Benwell’s frozen body turns up near Woodstock, Ontario, with two bullets in the back of his head.
So begins The Swamp of Death, British journalist Rebecca Gowers’s…
