Geoff Adams, Dunedin, 2011. Inscription and signature of the author on inner title page, good secondhand condition.

History from New Zealand?s early colonial days is traversed in this ?triple biography.? Prize-winning investigative journalist and now retired newspaper editor, Geoff Adams. explores three intertwined characters: Judge Dudley Ward, his wife Anne, and his mistress Thorpe Talbot. All three were celebrities in the 19th century.