The Mystery of the Handsome Man: The Double Life of John Lempriere Irvine by Wayne Murdoch
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Description The Mystery of the Handsome Man tells the strange-but-true story of John Lempriere Irvine (born 1847; died unknown), banker, champion sportsman and bon vivant. Ranging from the convict settlement of Port Arthur, to the heights of colonial Tasmanian Society, the goldrush towns of Ballarat and Bendigo, and the ballrooms of Marvellous Melbourne in the 1880s, this is the story of a popular man-about-town who held a secret – a secret that would occasionally lead him into the half-light of the Victorian underworld and would ultimately lead to his downfall, disgrace, and disappearance. PB, 235 pp, 2020
